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From: Shalandara <>
Subject: Lloyd Family (Was: Re: Are These Reliable Books?)
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 15:23:49 -0400

Stewart Baldwin wrote:
[Re: Royal Descents of 500 immigrants]

>This book was discussed at length in this group several months ago,
>and I don't think that "very good reputation" would be an accurate
>assessment of this book. The book received a somewhat negative review
>by Neil Thompson in TAG (with which I agree), and contains a number of
>lines which never should have been included. (For one example, see my
>article in the current issue of TAG, which gives the disproof of a
>supposed Lloyd royal line whose "documentation" was so shoddy that the
>line never should have been included in a work of this type.) "Royal
>Descents" is a good finding aid for locating *claimed* royal descents
>which have appeared in the published literature, and contains good
>references for pursuing the matter further, but the lines contained in
>this book should not be regarded as proven without first checking them
>in the primary sources (which "Royal Descents" does not cite).

Stewart (and others)

Is the Lloyd line you are talking about in Robert's "500", the one for
Anne
Lloyd, wife of Theophilus Eaton? If so, I would be grateful for pointers
to
informaiton that would correct that line, as I had never found anyu
ancesters
for Anne Lloyd until I found that book.

Elizabeth Ernst

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