Excerpt from Powers-Banks Ancestry: Traced in All Lines to the Remotest Date Obtainable, Charles Powers 1819-1871 and His Wife Lydia Ann Banks 1829-1919This book is the result of studies carried on in intervals from regular occupation extending over a period of about nine years. For a long time no thought of printing occurred to the writer and when that thought was first entertained it was sup posed that the public would be only the immediate family. AS a consequence of these circumstances the work is somewhat uneven, part of it has been written rather familiarly in the first person, part of it is unaccompanied by citation of sources. Yet, though it is too much to expect where so many particular facts are gathered that there should not be error, it is confi dently asserted that pains have been taken to make the work accurate and that in the later portions of the work sources have been carefully indicated.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.