How to Read Lineage Books?

mayimagpie

I found the names I'm looking for in a town history book, but I'm not sure how to correctly read the lineage formatting. Is there a wiki page to help explain it?

I'm trying to put together the "Ames Family" on page 236 of this book:

https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/581070/?offset=0#page=236&viewer=picture&o=search&n=0&q=ames

Áine Ní Donnghaile

Not every author followed the same format. There is generally a key near the front of the book that explains the author's system.

mayimagpie

Yeah, that's typically how I've understood them before, but there wasn't one in this book unfortunately.