This HASEMAN GENEALOGY is only a brief outline of our family history and does 
not contain details such as information sources, dates for the children in each 
family, and other facts for each generation.  These details appear in some 25 
looseleaf notebooks and in drawers of surname index cards which are filed in my 
home office. These details are the result of some 100 hobby years starting with
my mother. I cannot swear that every detail in my outline is correct because 
there are sometimes conflicting versions in the records and literature, but I 
have tried to display the most logical choice when information conflicts. My 
first efforts with the genealogy appear in 5 looseleaf notebooks which I made 
in 1990. I then sent copies to my children and some other members of my family.

Surnamws were not widely used before 1400.  Before then individuals used just 
their given name and one or more discriptive terms referring to:
(1) Their father (Fitz Herbert,ap Griffith, verch Griffith, MacCrinan, etc.)
(2) Where they lived (de Ruyter, von Aachen, bei der Hase, at church, etc.)
(3) Their occupation (baker, miller, smith, knight, merchant, etc)
(4) Their title (lord, baron, duke, MP, etc.)
(5) Their physical appearance (white head, long legs, short, fat, etc)
(6) Their character traits (the pious, great, unready, bold, etc)
As generations went by, discriptive terms changed to fit the individual, so when
surnames were chosen based on discriptive terms often different branches of the 
same family were known by different surnames.