INTRODUCTION.
This Genealogy of the Robert Campbell family is
not intended for a literary production. Nor does it
aim to indulge, to any extent, in biographies of the
individuals named; otherwise the book would have
been larger than a dictionary and would have cost as
much It is a simple annotation of genealogical and
principal historical facts; a following up of the disper-
sion of this family, and a following back to its early
history in which all are equally interested.
The aim has been, through an original method, to
enable anv one with ease, to thread his way through
this labyrinth of names. The plan is as follows:— At
the head of each section is the name of an individual
whose descendants are enumerated beneath. In par
enthesis after the head name, is given the immediate
ancestor of the subject,-father or mother: a reference
will carry the reader back to the section where this
parent's name appears at the head, with the brothers
and sisters and the original subject beneath. In many
cases names of children have against them a reference,
sending the reader forward to sections where the same
appear as parents, their children's names, in turn,
being ranged beneath. In other cases all this, and
even"" further generations, are worked out without
forming separate sections. It is important to notice
that the section reference at the head usually carries
backward to parentage; and that at the side of any name
beneath the head usually carries forward to descen-
dants. The small raised number after a given name ...
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