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at th at t im e. Your anc estra l l ines overlapp ed. You m ight f ind, for e xam ple,that some fert i le yeoman, of three or fourcenturies ago, was your forefather in asmany as three or four different l ines.Nevertheless , however you consider thefigures, they present strong evidence thatyou are probably descended, i f you haveBrit ish blood, from virtually every manon the Is les wh o fath ere d chi ldren du ringKing A lfred 's re ign. W hy not adm it th el ike l ihood tha t he was one of them?"

Most of the l ines we have traced in this chart showsome adm ixture of Engl ish blood. F ur the rm or e, wi ththe world 's populat ion so smal l in the ninth century, thesame general izat ions would be t rue of Germany and al loth er cou ntries. So you ar e of th e blood of kin gs . B utthen so is practically everybody else.

In this chart , Emera Alt izer ' s chi ldren and grandchi ldren are l is ted in capi ta ls ; the fourth generat ion isshown by numerals; the fifth in bold print; the sixth bylet ters . The abbrev iat ions used a r e : ch. for ch i ldre n;b- for bor n; d . for died ; m. for m ar rie d; m ar. for m arr i ag e ; dau . for da ug ht er ; ab t . for about . Th e derivat ions of names shown in Chapter 27 are for the most partfrom Harrison 's Surnames of the United Kingdom.

Emera Altizer born at Bingen on the Rhine, Hesse, Germany about 1736: died in Montgomery County, Virginia, Sept. 1819. Married(1) M ary P i tze r b . abt . 174 0; d. abt . 17 71 . Da u.Chris t ian and/Mary Pi tzer (? )(2) M ary M iller b . in Be rkeley County, V a. 17 58 ;m. July 1773; d . Aug. 25, 1850 in MontgomeryCounty. Dau. David and Hannah Mil ler .11