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Author: CArchivist
Surnames: Valois Zeller Sellaire
Classification: queries
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I keep running into the same problems as I have been reading all the genealogies related
to these two people and that is, do these two really exist?
As been documented by several researchers, not a single document with their names on it
has shown up in the US, Netherlands, England, Germany, Switzerland, or France. All records
seem to be repeats of information first written about in the 1920s, by a Zeller who had
his book printed by one of those companies that creates Coats of Arms for families.
It really is such a great story, and I would love to think I too had royal blood. But why
no records of them? All sorts of paperwork showing the "sons" but not mentioning
the mother or the father, leads me to believe that Jaques and Clothilda were made up.
Also on the previous posting showing zeller history, something really off for one of those
father/son listings. How could Stephen Zeller II have died in 1606 and yet have a son Hans
Heinrich Zeller born in 1609? Something amiss there.
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