In publishing this History and Genealogy of the Greenlee Family we have aimed to make it as complete and at the same time as simple as possible, embracing the desirable features of numerous other works of this kind thereto published.
Several thousand descendants of the Greenlee Family were contacted with blanks to be filled out with data concerning their families, but most of them failed to respond to our communications. Whenever it has been possible we have copied wills, records, etc., directly from the originals. Where members or descendants of a family have given different dates, preference has been given to those which seemed most plausible, according to existing circumstances. In many cases where there were no means of determining which information was correct, the various dates have been given. When Bible records have differed from town records, the latter have been accepted as correct.
The work of collecting information regarding different members of the Greenlee Family has unfortunately not been made easier by previous genealogies and we have been obliged to rely on the co-operation of its members for a large portion of the information obtained. We have to thank the descendants generally for their kindness and readiness to assist us in many ways.
