The student of surnames who desires to follow down the stream of racial history must begin with that given us by our sacred record in the Bible. Very clear and definite are the genealogies there, and sufficient light is thrown upon the origin and final breaking up of the tribes and races of the earth after the Deluge to give the student a clear idea of that history, although there are missing links in almost every chain of genealogy. In that given from Adam to our Savior, as recorded by St. Matthew and St. Luke, the line runs directly from Adam, through Seth, Eber, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jacob’s son Judah down to Joseph the step-father of the Savior, and to Mary His Mother.

Adam. Adam has three sons named in Genesis: Cain, Abel, and Seth. He had many other sons and daughters (Genesis 5:4; Pearl of Great Price, Moses 5:2, 3). After the tragedy which resulted in the death of Abel, Cain married a daughter from the disobedient descendants of Adam, and settled the land of Nod (Pearl of Great Price, Moses 5:41).