Excerpt from A Brief Statement of History and Genealogy of Seven Generations of the Pickett Family: 1776 to 1936 Our modest efforts to trace our family lineage back as far as possible and establish therefrom a genealogy down to our present generation, has been successful only to a moderate degree; but we have learned enough to know something of the general trend and history of our family's growth and development - enough that we have every reason to be proud of the record that our ancestors have established. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.