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From: Jared Olar <>
Subject: Re: Phony 19th-century pedigrees
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 17:31:56 -0600
In-Reply-To: <4ha1s3$isk@news2.delphi.com>
On Sat, 2 Mar 1996, wrote:
> (Paul M. Gifford) writes:
>
>
> Sally
> We have an old (probably 1850s) paper with a totally fictitious genealogy of
> >the Gifford family, starting with one "Sir Randolphe de Gifford" who came to
> >England in 1066, then going down a line of Giffords of Chillington (a
> >legitimate family, but the paper names fictitious members), down to a
> >fictitious immgrant, "Walter Gifford, who came to Massachusetts Bay in 1630."
> >My great-grandfather was too young and too poor to pay for something like
> >this, but it was probably done for one of his more prosperous relatives living
> >in western New York then. The paper quotes Dugdale as a source. . . .
>
>
> >Paul Gifford
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If my memory serves me, there are several articles on the
Giffard/Gifford families in "English Origins of New England Families,"
but I don't remember which volumes have the relevant articles--or indeed
which of the two series it is, though I think it is the first series.
Jared Olar
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