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From: Stewart Baldwin< >
Subject: Re: Odard de Dutton
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 18:57:36 GMT


On 2 Aug 1999 04:58:02 -0700, (Kay Allen AG) wrote:

>It would appear that Cope is an incompetent genealogist and a plagerist
>to boot, if he did not cite Ormerod.

Did you know that Gilbert Cope (1840-1928) is a member of the National
Genealogy Hall of Fame, and was the foremost expert on English and
American Quaker genealogy of his time? Although I am not familiar
with the specific case being discussed here, I have done a tremendous
amount of genealogical research on English and American Quaker
families, and am familiar with much of Cope's work, which I have found
to be of very high quality. (I have caught him in a few errors, but
every genealogist as prolific as Cope is going get caught making
mistakes from time to time.) Before suggesting that such an eminent
genealogist might have been a plagiarist and an incompetent, I think
that more detailed evidence should be offered.

Stewart Baldwin

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