Excerpt from Levering Family: History and Genealogy It is an aggregation of personal annals and sketches, carefully woven, woof and warp, that makes a family history. History is fact; other than fact is not history. The collection of family events is not fiction, nor is it fulsome epitaph, though some inflated persons, whose plebeian origin may be seen by a glance backward, without climbing a hill, or even a ladder, would have family dignity emphasized. 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.