Usage Guide
The data from which the following ancestral in formation is derieved has been compiled in a genealogical computer program called Brother's Keeper. The Stormont/Jenks database itself contains over 44,000 linked name entries, from which lineage charts are constructed.
Since many entries are from periods when data was not normally present, and since previous genealogical research efforts may not have been as expanded as this one, additional genealogical information from over 2000 families was obtained from a wide variety of sources, reviewed and compiled with other available family history information for this publication, in effect, giving a compilation of almost all possible information available.
Naturally, some variance from different sources exists; however in the interests of genealogical research, the most possible information is presented representing the general consensus of all sources.
One advantage of reviewing a great number of sources is that often one source may have information which is not present elsewhere. And too, when investigating family branches, often the branch researcher has access to information normally not available from an "outsider" looking in, and is assumed to be generally more accurate.
Where conflicts occurred, judgement was used to determine which information would be used (note that in the Jenks line genealogical source conflicts occurred even with professional researchers). And, where information was lacking but high probabilities existed that connections were possible, the entry contains notations as to assumptions.
This is not a "family history" as such, showing all members of all lines (except those of the principal families), although entries into the Brother's Keeper program attempted to include all known information about all siblings of all principal (related) members in any particular line. This was necessary to overcome identity conflicts present in earlier generations (i.e. when middle names were not used, when numerous identically named members occurred in the same generation or the same family).
Although our computer files might well contain all possible information for quite a number of generations, these pages generally show lineages only to the principal ancestor (of any line), and siblings in any generation of the line presented to that point. Each collateral line then proceeds to the female who married into another collateral line; therefore, researchers should then go to her husband's collateral line to proceed further.
Total inclusion of all members of branch families (spousal to primary branches if the Jenks/Stormont families) and complete generation displays of all families (apart from primary connections) would pose prohibitive space requirements in this publication, but are available from the compiler in that all complete branch family members are within the computer database and can be accessed at any time for more comprehensive branch family in formation not displayed herein.
The format used is a "modified register" format, whereby all persons are given Arabic numerals, but only persons who have progeny in succeeding generations are given a "+" sign. In long lineages, this is sometimes confusing when viewing on a computer. Our suggestion is that you simply "print" the file page, then use your own method of marking lineages.
For ease in tracing connected members of families, we have highlighted in red a connected family member for that lineage displayed. To proceed further, you will have to return to the Genealogies Listing Page and select that lineage. (No direct links are provided to carry you to that name in the associated lineage, so you will have to connect by association)
In finding a particular person in another file, the person number will not be identical in each file. However, a person might have one ancestral association number in one file from that principal ancestor; and a completely different descent association number in relation to another branch ancestor in THAT particular lineage. (Compare, for instance, that a child might have one paternal ancestor descent number ( as son of David4, for instance, in David’s lineage) and a different maternal ancestor descent number as son of Mary6, for instance, in Mary’s lineage).
In scanning names, you may well find other connected family names which are not highlighted in red.
For instance, in early New England, you will find many brothers and sisters marrying into many other connected families. The entry may well include a “Weed” brother (of our “Weed” connection) marrying a sister (of our “Hoyt” connection). Although they will not be highlighted in red, because they are not direct lineage, each may well also have their mother and father not listed in red, although the mother and father are direct lineage. To review all files for these listings would be prohibitive.
This is principally due to the complicated reviewing of each lineage for all family connections.
In the sense that "we are all descended from Adam", in many families there comes a time where common ancestors occur.
In the Jenks and Stormont lines, this occurs in the Brandon family, in the 15th Century, where two sisters married, one leading to Jenks associated lines and the other leading to Stormont associated lines.
No individual name index is provided, given the number of names covered, and because multiple listings would have to occur of those names in both a principal line and in a separate family line.
This material is not copyrighted, in that it has been prepared for research study only, in some instances from previously copyrighted information. Persons attempting to copyright from this documentation may well be liable for copyright infringement of other materials.
Our thanks to the thousands of others who have contributed to this work through their knowledge and sharing of individual family genealogies.
This work is dedicated to Edith Elizabeth Foster Stormont and Albert Ernest Jenks who began most of the basic research - we are simply filling in the gaps.