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Excerpt from The Ancestors and Descendants of Rulef Schenck: A Genealogy of the Onondaga County, New York, Branch of the Schenck Family
For many years my beloved father, Adrian Adelbert Schenck, cherished the ambition of putting on record the genealogy of that branch of the Schenck family which originally resided in or near Onondaga County, New York. The exigencies of an active business life left him but little time for working upon the thousands of details of a book of this kind, yet as opportunity offered, he corresponded with those from whom information could be obtained and carefully recorded names and dates, with that wonderful patience which was such a predominant trait of his character. One who has not tried to gather together facts about which there are no books and no authorities, little realizes the difficulties which beset such work. Letters are carelessly answered or are entirely ignored, records are imperfect as to full names and com plete dates, and the memory often fails at a critical point. Unless one has the time to work continuously at such a task, it progresses but slowly and it therefore took many years for my father to collect the facts here recorded.
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