‘Genealogy and the medieval historian’ by Michael Maclagan
from the paper presented at the 1978 English Genealogy Congress held at St
Catherine College, Cambridge.
In a recent workshop at NWKFHS Society Library I explored errors,
lies and other misinformation in records found in the commercial and government
indexes online. There are also a number of fake pedigrees that are known within
the genealogical community such as those written by Gustav Anjou between 1890
and 1942 [Online https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Fraudulent_Genealogies].
Michael Maclagan mentions a case of someone embellishing their Ancestry. Sir
Walter de Norwich d 1329 became Chief Baron of the Exchequer and his son John
Admiral North of the Thames became a peer in 1342. The pedigree compiled with
supporting forged documents (Maclagan p12 quoting Bodleian MS Top. Gen.c.62
(formerly Phillips 3796)) claims to go back to a companion of William the
Conqueror.
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