Excerpt from A History or Genealogical Record of the Messler On the death of my father in 1893, all the materials which had been collected by him and by his father before him passed into my possession. What had been commenced I then re solved to finish as far as possible, within known. Limitations. And so it is that during the interval of ten years which has now elapsed, I have been enabled, through many long periods of interruption and through many difficulties and misgivings as well, to still further elaborate and amplify the work down to and including the present, or ninth generation. In reviewing and systematically arranging the materials then already at hand I early foresaw that, as some of the links in the second and third generations and many of those in the later generations were irretrievably lost, ultimately a point would be reached where further inquiries would be useless in the endeavor to ascertain missing names. 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.