On Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 3:43:43 PM UTC-7, Peter Stewart via wrote: > I wonder if only the Béarn names and succession have been taken from Las > Cases, and then false dates and the putative Sternberg connection have > been added from 'Personal knowledge of Kirk Larson' and/or 'The > Generations Network, "Ancestry Family Trees" database', both cited on > the family history webpage that was linked from my earlier post. I wondered about that, but if you follow it down a few generations Las Cases is still being cited (e g. here: http://www.ourfamilyhistories.org/getperson.php?personID=I140412&tree=00 ). This may well be sloppy second-hand citation, but without seeing Las Cases who can tell (and the nearest copy is several hundred miles away, so I won't be the one checking). taf

On 6/05/2016 9:44 AM, taf via wrote: > On Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 3:43:43 PM UTC-7, Peter Stewart via wrote: > >> I wonder if only the Béarn names and succession have been taken from Las >> Cases, and then false dates and the putative Sternberg connection have >> been added from 'Personal knowledge of Kirk Larson' and/or 'The >> Generations Network, "Ancestry Family Trees" database', both cited on >> the family history webpage that was linked from my earlier post. > I wondered about that, but if you follow it down a few generations Las Cases is still being cited (e g. here: http://www.ourfamilyhistories.org/getperson.php?personID=I140412&tree=00 ). > This may well be sloppy second-hand citation, but without seeing Las Cases who can tell (and the nearest copy is several hundred miles away, so I won't be the one checking). > Looking at the full list of individuals and families for whom the same work is cited by this compiler (http://www.ourfamilyhistories.org/showsource.php?sourceID=S88&tree=00&ioffset=&foffset=50) suggests sloppy second-hand citation at best - I doubt very much that Las Cases wasted space on this lot in his atlas (which the compiler, apparently copy-pasting from Google Books, weirdly describes as "2 p., 38 leaves of plates : geneal. tables, col. maps"). Peter Stewart