Jane Torres asked me to pass this along to all of you.
Tim Singleton, tsingleton(a)iclub.org
Volunteer INGenWeb Coordinator
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Marlene Pointer" <mpointer(a)OregonVOS.net>
To: <EUBANKS-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 5:51 PM
Subject: Fraudulent Lineages
Kinda interesting ............even a little scarey when you think
that
researchers even included this stuff in their family history!!
http://www.linkline.com/personal/xymox/fraud/fraud223.htm
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 1 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. Harold Oliver, Director
America's First Families October 5, 1998
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 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 A1 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 C127an
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 #000182 item 1
CLEMENT Family 929.273 C59171a
The CLISE Family 929.273 C619a
COCHRAN Family 929.273 C643a
COOK Families FHL #908136 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 C791a
CORBIE Family 929.273 C81a
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 D221a
De RONDE Family 929.273 R667a
DEVECMAN Family 929.273 A1 no. 542
DICKEY Family FHL #924400 item 4
The DORNAN History 929.273 D73451a
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 A1 no. 545
The HULBERT Family, 1305-{1884}; 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 A1 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 M781a
The NICHOLSON Family 929.273 N52a
ORD Family 929.273 Or2a ORMOND Family 929.273 Or45a
PARSON Family Records 929.273 P251a
The PULLMAN Family 929.273 P967a
REDBURN Family 929.273 R246a
History of the RICHARDSON Family Q929.273 A1 no. 24
ROBINSON Family 929.273 A1 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 A1 no. 556 Rev. Ed;
ROCKWELL Family 929.273 A1 no. 546
ROGER Family FHL #908510 item 12
The ROSS Family 929.273 R733a RUNK-RUNCK Family 929.273 R874r
RUSSEL Family 929.273 R911a
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 Se16a
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 A1 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 A1 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. If you know of any Anjou sources not listed above, please,
firstfamilies(a)linkline.com, contact me.
ATTENTION GENEALOGY LIBRARIANS
I would be very interested in learning of any genealogical works in your
collections that may be credited to Gustave Anjou or his company, AMERICAN
CONSUMERS SOCIETY, located at No. 2 West 45th Street, New York. Thank you
for
your assistance.