Pioneering - the Beville genealogy
Frank's Periodic Progress Report
So that people will know that the second edition of Pioneering in America is coming along as promised, and to pass on small bits of information, it seems worthwhile to send you all a progress report.This one covers the months of March and April.
First, my thanks to those who have made significant contributions to the book to date.These contributions will make it considerably more useful to many more branches of the Beville and related families than the original edition was.As one of our group asked, "why should Bevilles whose families were located in areas other than Georgia and Florida buy this book?"
A good question, and one which I hope to address in the second edition. One large line which was given short shrift in the original edition was that of Edward Beville.Edward Beville, the great-grandson of Essex Beville, was the founder of another large line of Beville descendants which stretch throughout the Southern as well as other parts of the United States.His father, Robert Beville, Sr, was also father of Robert Beville Jr. and grandfather of Robert Beville, III, who is covered extensively in the first edition.Edward's birthdate was 1723.
And there's the Elam family line.The Elam family, tied back to Essex Beville though the distaff line needs to be covered.As does the Beville-Burton line.And as I have mentioned, the Buell family is important too, with the first Buells arriving in the Colonies before Essex Beville's arrival.(Buell is another spelling used by the Bevilles in Huntingdonshire England.) People have already promised me material on these lines and in some cases I have actually received material from you.In other cases, I know you are working on it.
It would be wonderful if Heritage Books would allow me to expand this book to 1000 or more pages, but that's not practical from a printing standpoint nor from a cost-to-you consideration.So I will have to limit the amount of space I can devote to these additional areas of coverage.Although I'd like to make space, I dare not remove any of the material which Asselia included in the first edition.I can only imagine the slings and arrows which would be directed at me if I excised anything covering your OWN great-great grandmother; I'll not risk it, thank you.
And as I have told many of you by personal e-mail, I cannot take on the role of genealogist-in- charge, do research for you, nor monitor, past the most obvious goofs,the accuracy of your own inputs.I'll have to depend upon you exclusively.So use your e-mail, correspond with others, chop it through them and try to come up with something mutually agreeable to everyone.
And remember, try as we may, genealogy can only be an inexact science at best.There will be disagreements and contradictions and gaps.That goes with the territory and I can tolerate a few, here and there.But I would prefer to add, as an editor's note, some accounting of these less-than-certain areas.
To date, I have scanned and edited and rewritten more than 350 pages - about half of the original text and processed 45 photographs for inclusion. And in all of this, my special thanks goes to Linda Sanders whose excellent contribution in the computer-formatting of some of our genealogy tables has saved me weeks of time in front of the computer.Her work is thorough and completely professional.
I'll keep you all posted.
Frank
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