No genealogy is entirely complete nor gives as much information about the individuals Therein as some will seek. Unfortunately there are a few sub-brancbes of the Mundy family with whom I was unable to make contact. However, there are reasons for proceeding to publish what I have rather than waiting, especially consideration of older members of the family who are anxious to see what has been accumulated.

A note about the spelling of the name is in order. Some six spelling variations of the name are found in the records: Mundy, Monday, Munday, Mondy, Mundi and Mundey. However, the more one reads the records, the more obvious it becomes that there is no authoratative value in the spellings. Rather, they are the various opinions of the clerks that recorded the name as they believed it should be spelled. Few if any of the individuals in the earlier generations in this book could read or write.

Later, five of the six brothers and their descendants spelled the name Mundy, with Hiram and his descendants spelling it Mondy. Numerous descendants of Henry, Jr., brother of Larkin, now live in the Indianapolis, Indiana, area. Various sub-branches of that branch spell the name Mundy, Monday and Munday. (see appendix)

The system of individual identification used in this genealogy is known as the Lincoln system because it was first used in the genealogy of the Lincoln family. In it the first ancestor is designated "a". His children are designated aa, ab, ac, etc., in order of birth. For ease of reading, a space is left after each group of five letters. The number of letters in the designation equals the generation to which the individual belongs. The group of letters tells the complete line of descent. For example, James Hiram Mondy, abefc, is a member of the fifth generation. He was the third child of his parents. His father was the sixth child of his parents, and so on back to the first letter, a, the first ancestor in this genealogy.

Last but not least, I wish to acknowledge the help which many of you have given. Obviously I cannot list the names because it includes most of the persons whose names appear in these pages. However, I wish to give special credit to two people; to my Aunt Anna (Mundy) Broadstreet who gave me the names of Larkin's children and made the whole project possible, and to Cousin June (Mundy) Haworth who made it possible for me to include the descendants of James, son of Larkin.