My fascinating yet productive hobby began only with details of the delivery of quadruplets in my home city. The quadruplets were delivered by one of my psysician-employers and, because of predelivery contacts with the mother who was a member of my church, a scrap book about the quadruplets was started. Through outside pursuits, correspondence, detailed study and research this single scrap book has developed into what is believed to be the most extensive collection of authentic data and photographs of twins and supertwins in the world.

Files are kept as authentic as possible, yet by no means are internationally complete. Unfortunately, all multiple births are not recorded in medical, or public, registers and/or literature and some are never registered as multiple births due to circumstances surrounding the birth. A set of quadruplets about whom I have many news items from birth to age one year comes to mind… although the quadruplet birth was recorded by articles in newspapers, medical archives have no record of it because the physician expired before he formally recorded the birth in medical literature. Some births are recorded individually not indicating a multiple birth and others are lost because of a stillborn infant or a macerated fetus accompanying a live birth. Even parents are not always informed of the birth of a macerated fetus that accompanies a live birth.