----- Original Message ----- From: <UTZ@aol.com> Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 9:43 AM Subject: Fraudulent Lineages > FRAUDULENT LINEAGES > > The following information was compiled by Mr. Robert Charles Anderson, CG, > FASG of 2 Fenway, Derry, NH 03038, and published in Volume 19, Numbers 1 & 2, > 1991 of the Genealogical Journal of the Utah Genealogical Association, PO Box > 1144, Salt Lake, Utah 84110. The title of the article is; We Wuz Robbed! > > Mr. Anderson is the Director of the Great Migration Study Project sponsored > by the New England Historic Genealogical Society. He is a Certified > Genealogist, a fellow of the American Society of Genealogists, a fellow of > the Utah Genealogical Association, and has published numerous articles in The > New England Historical and Genealogical Register, The American Genealogist, > the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, and The Genealogist, as well as > the Genealogical Journal. > > Professional genealogists and serious researchers alike, have been aware of > the forgeries and frauds committed by GUSTAVE ANJOU (1863-1942) and we of > this Society believe this material should be brought to the attention of all > who may come in contact with any the publications listed below. > > The sad fact is that Gustave Anjou was not a genealogist, but a forger of > genealogical records that have been passed on for years to unwary clients and > then through researchers who believed, or wanted to believe, they had a true > lineage. They in turn republished the material in their own works and the > cycle continues even today. > > Gustave Anjou produced these "genealogies" for wealthy clients at a price of > around $9,000 and the client. needless to say, always received what they > wanted. > > In the words of Mr. Anderson; > > " A typical Anjou pedigree displays four recognizable features: > > 1. A dazzling range of connections between dozens of immigrants to New > England; for example, connections far beyond what may be seen in pedigrees > produced by anyone else: > > 2. Many wild geographical leaps, outside the normal range of migration > patterns; > > 3. An overwhelming number of citations to documents that actually exist, and > actually include what Anjou says they include; and > > 4. Here and there an invented document, without citation, which appears to > support the many connections noted under item I above". > > The above mentioned publication is one that belongs in your genealogy > library. I urge you all to read the detailed account of this article and the > five other genealogy fraud articles that appear with it. Included is another > detailed article about Gustave Anjou's life and forgery methods, entitled > Gustave, We Hardly Knew Ye: by Gordon L. Remington, editor of the > Genealogical Journal. > > Please do not contact the Society in regards to copies of these articles. We > will honor existing copyright laws owned by the publisher and do not > distribute copies of their work. > > We owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Anderson for bringing these facts to our > attention and also to the Genealogical Journal for their courage by > publishing the material. > > The article further states; > > "The following 109 "genealogies" are found at the Family History Library in > Salt Lake City, Utah. All but those marked with an asterisk are cataloged > under Gustave Anjou, H. Anjou, or M. Anjou in the Author-Title Catalog. Only > three of the "genealogies" were actually printed, the works on the FREEMAN, > BLAISDELL, and SHAPLEIGH families -and only the FREEMAN was actually > published by Anjou- the other two were later publishings of his original > typescript. > > Anjou's genealogy on the TONE family was later incorporated into Dr. Frank > Jerome Tone's History of the Tone Family (Niagara Falls, NY: the author, > 1944) FHL 929.173 T612t, which is not included in this list. The unprinted > genealogies were all bound typescripts or carbons of the original, and even > the unsigned ones are recognizable as being Anjou's creations-invariably > beginning with a history of the surname. Since four of Anjou's works were > found by looking at films that contained catalogues references, there may be > others lurking somewhere in the collection." > > In continuation; > > "Six of the catalog entries under Anjou's name, however, are to what appear > to be extracts of documents or original source material not organized or > typed us as formal "genealogies." These entries are marked with a !. Whether > or not they can be really be attributed to Anjou is not known. Excluding them > leaves 103 compiled "genealogies" by Anjou in the Family History Library. In > 1927 Anjou published a catalogue of 192 "genealogies", leaving 89 > "genealogies" unaccounted for by this list." > > The numbers given after the title are the call numbers at the Family History > Library. > > !The ANDREWS Family 929.273 A1 #688 > The BACKUS Family 929.273 B128a > The BACON Family FHL #908083 item 7 > BEACH Family FHL #908083 item 9 > The BELL Family FHL #908833 item 4 > BLAISDELL Family Manuscript 929.242 Al no. 25 > Histore de la famille BLOEDEL 929.273 B6214a > The BRAMAN Family 929.273 B7311a > BROOKING (Broquin) Family 929.273 B79132a > The BUCKNER Family 929.273 B857a > > CALDWELL Family 929.273 C 127an > History of the CARR Family of Scotland, England and the United States Part 1: > Scotland and the United States 929.273 C23a, > CARROLL Family FHL #908510 item 11 > CARUTHERS Family 929.273 C2372a > CARTER Families FHL #897418 item 22 > The CHALFONT Family 929.273 C35a > CHAPLIN Family FHL #908086 item 9 > The CHILD Family 929.273 C436a > CHURCH Family 929.273 A1 no. 544 > The CHURCH Family from 1202 FHL #389396 > > CHURCH, the English Ancestry of Richard Church of Hartford FHL #000 182 item > 1 CLEMENT Family 929.273 C59171a > The CLISE Family 929.273 C619a > COCHRAN Family 929.273 C643a > COOK Families FHL #90813 6 item 5 > History of the COPLEY Family of England with Ancestry of Thomas Copley, > Shelbrook, Yorkshire, Northampton, MA 929.273 C791an > History of the COPLEY Family of England with Ancestry of Thomas Copley, > Shelbrook, Yorkshire, Northampton, MA Revised Edition 929.273 C791 a > CORBIE Family 929.273 C8 1 a > CORLIEZ Family 929.273 C81342a > CORRY Family FHL #1651933 item 12 > > CRAWFORD Family 929.273 C856a > CUNNINGHAM Family 929.241 C917a > The DANIEL Family 929.273 D22 1a > De RONDE Family 929.273 R667a > DEVECMAN Family 929.273 A1 no. 542 > DICKEY Family FHL #924400 item 4 > The DORNAN History 929.273 D7345 1 a > DOTY Family 929.273 A1 no. 543 > DU PONT Family FHL #908504 item 1 > DUNCAN Family 929.273 D912a > > ERICKSON Family 929.273 A1 no. 551 > FICKEN Family 929.273 F446a > The FISH (FISK) Family FHL #908219 > FLANDERS Family 929.273 F613a > Early History of the FREEMAN Family; of Surrey, England, and New Jersey, > Michigan, North Carolina, and California in the United States FHL #1033558 > item 9 > GALWAY Family (GALLAWAY, GALLOWAY) FHL #908219 item 9 > ! GILL Family FHL #908504 item 10 > The HOLLIDAY, HALLIDAY Family 929.273 Al no. 545 > The HULBERT Family, 1305- {I 8841; with the Ancestry of Walter HULBORD, > Thomas HULBERT, William HURLBERT, and their Connections with Early Immigrants > to the New World: Connections with Samuel BENNETT in James 1635 to Lynn, MA., > the HYDE, HURD, PARTRIDGE, HARDY and Other Families/Henry Carlton HURLBERT, > Descandant of Thomas HULBERT of Saybrook, CT and Wethersfield 929.273 A1 no. > 540 > The HULL History: Containing the Ancestry of Richard HULL of Dorchester, 1634 > 929.273 H877a > > HUNGERFORD Family 929.273 A1 no. 548 > The Jack Family (JACQUES, JAMES) 929.273 J12a > The JOHNSON Family 929.273 J63an > The JOHNSON Family 929.273 J63ab > JONES Genealogy, A Welsh Family 929.273 J71a > KENNETT Family 929.273 K393a > KLAUS (Claus) Family 929.273 K668a > ! LANE Family Extracts from Suffolk Probate Record FHL #908071 item 7 > LEE Family 929.273 Al no. 549 > The LENMAN Family (LEMAN, LANHAM, LENHAM) 929.273 L547a > > The Lewis History; Containing Also the History of Various American Families > FHL #908006 item 1 The LILLY Family: LILLIE, LILLE, LILLI, and LILLY: A > Complete History of the Lillie, Lille, Lilli and Lilly Families from Sweden > to France to America, 1291-1898 929.273 L628an > ! LINCOLN Family 929.273 no. 550 > MARK Family 929.273 M34a > The MARSHALL Family 929.273 M355a > The McVICKAR History FHL #908006 item 4 > MONS (MANTZ) Family 929.273 M758a MOORE Family 929.273 M78 1 a > The NICHOLSON Family 929.273 N52a > ORD Family 929.273 Or2a > > ORMOND Family 929.273 Or45a > PARSON Family Records 929.273 P25 I a > The PULLMAN Family 929.273 P967a > REDBURN Family 929.273 R246a > History of the RICHARDSON Family Q929.273 Al no. 24 > ROBINSON Family 929.273 Al no. 556 > ROBINSON Family: Genealogical History of the Robinson Family from John > Robyson of England in 1374, to Henry and Richard Robinson of Maryland in > 1650, to John Robinson of Delaware in 1698, to John M. Robinson, 1878 929.273 > Al no. 556 Rev. Ed; > ROCKWELL Family 929.273 Al no. 546 > ROGER Family FHL #9085 10 item 12 > The ROSS Family 929.273 R733a > > RUNK-RUNCK Family 929.273 R874r > RUSSEL Family 929.273 R91 I a > History of a German Family: the SCHNEIDER Family of Friesland, 1492 A.D. etc. > with the Ancestry of Various American Immigrants 929.273 Sch58a > SEAMAN Family 929.273 Sel6a > SHAPLEIGH Family 929.273 SH64ag > The SPROULL Family from 1283 A.D.: with Ancestry of, e.g., Governor W.C. > Sproull of Pennsylvania. Also the Affiliated Families; CLARK, with the > Ancestry of Sen. W.C. Clark, MURE, PATTERSON, > CARRUTHERS, etc. 929.273 Sp87a > STONE Family 929.273 St72a > ! STOWELL Family FHL #90854 item 12 > SWIFT Family 929.273 Sw54a > ! THAXTER Family FHL #908504 item 11 > > THOMPSON Families 929.273 T371an > The TILNEY Family 929.273 T468a > The TONE Family 929.273 T612a > TOPPING Family FHL #924086 item 4 > The TRAYLOUR Family (TRAYLOR) 929.273 T699a > TURNER Family FHL #924400 > The von HORN Family 929.273 H783a > WALLEY and other Families 929.273 Al no. 599 > WARD Family FHL #908504 item 3 > WATERBURY Family FHL #908504 item 5 > > The WELD Family (WELLS, WELLES, WILLIS), 1066 A.D.-ca. 1910; and WILDS FHL > #928025 item 2 > WELLING Family FHL #908504 item 2 > WHEELER Family FHL #908834 item 6 > The WHITMAN Family 929.273 A1 no. 582 > WILSON Family 929.273 W691c > WITHERSPOON Family 929.273 A1 no. 558 > WOLFF Family, ca. 760 A.D.- 1916 929.273 W832a > WOOLEY History 929.273 W888a The WORCESTER Family 929.273 Al no. 557 > > ATTENTION RESEARCHERS > If you or you know of anyone researching any of the above lines, you are > going to have serious problems with your lineage somewhere when you run into > a brick wall you can not scale. Not only will the above mentioned > "genealogies" steer you into uncharted waters but any other genealogies that > followed later and have used this material for their source. Any of your > sources that trace back to anything compiled by Gustave Anjou will prove > suspect. > > > Always optimistic--Dave >

Thanks Betty for your letter about fraudulent lineages. I can only say it reinforces the dictum that you do not accept other people's research without yourself retracing their steps and verifying their sources. Unless you do you will always be at risk of being taken for a ride. Regards, Kaye Cole in Melbourne Betty Harris wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <UTZ@aol.com> > Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval > Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 9:43 AM > Subject: Fraudulent Lineages