The fraudulent Coligny-Rapalje descent

Dobson, John Blythe

Annals of Genealogical Research > Vol. 2, No. 1 (2006)

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The fraudulent Coligny-Rapalje descent

John Blythe Dobson

Abstract
This article identifies a likely source for some of the material used in the fictitious Coligny descent attributed to the Rapalje family of New Netherland in Jerome B. Holgate's American Genealogy (1849?). It also looks briefly at the fictitious Coligny descent attributed to the Fernald family of New England in the 1909 Fernald genealogy.

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Cite as: John Blythe Dobson, "The fraudulent Coligny-Rapalje descent," Annals of Genealogical Research Vol. 2, No. 1 (2006) at http://www.genlit.org/agr/viewarticle.php?id=10

Subject areas: Rapalje family; Coligny family; Fernald family; Holgate, Jerome B.; genealogical frauds; New Netherland; France

Annals of Genealogical Research - ISSN 1555-9904