Dear Newsgroup ~
Sometime ago, Spencer Hines requested that I post reviews of my book,
Plantagenet Ancestry, as I received them. I've seen several reviews
so far, all of them favorable. I found the review below at RoyaList
Online, which is an online royal genealogy database. The website
address for the review is:
http://www.royalist.info/execute/reviews
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
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"Reviews
Introduction
On this page we will include occasional reviews of books that are
likely to be of significant interest to anyone investigating royal
genealogy. If you have a suggestion for a book to be reviewed, or if
you would like to submit a review for publication on this page, please
send an e-mail to info@royalist.info.
Plantagenet Ancestry : A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families
by Douglas Richardson
(Royal Ancestry Series, editor Kimball G. Everingham)
Published 2004 by Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 0806317507
If you are descended from early North American colonists, you may
belong to one of the most famous families in history. With the
publication of Douglas Richardson's "Plantagenet Ancestry", there is
now an excellent single-volume source for researching your links to
the family that produced a line of English kings.
David Faris's "Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists",
published in 1996, traced the legitimate descendants of King Henry III
of England, a great-grandchild of Geoffrey Plantagenet. The new
"Plantagenet Ancestry" is an expansion and revision of that work,
tracing the descendants of 16 of Geoffrey's great-grandchildren, and
is the first in a planned series on the ancestry of American colonial
immigrants. Future volumes will cover descents from the Magna Carta
signatories, early feudal English barons, and the Emperor Charlemagne.
The new book documents lines of descent for approximately 190
17th-century North American colonists from the Plantagenet dynasty
that ruled England between 1154 and 1485. It addresses three distinct
audiences:
1. Those desiring a reliable reference for events and individuals
in the colonial and medieval time periods.
2. Those family researchers seeking information about their more
remote ancestry.
3. Those wishing to understand English history from a family
viewpoint.
The lines of descent are organised alphabetically by family name, but
with the primary Plantagenet line (down to Richard II) filling the
first 32 pages of the main section. The other lines occupy 774 pages,
the bulk of the main section, and are followed by a comprehensive
78-page bibliography and an index of names.
The wealth of detail in the book is astonishing, and will provide
weeks of fascinating reading to anyone with an interest in English
history. Each person featuring in a line of descent, and each of
his/her spouses, is described in a mini-biography containing whatever
salient details are known. Typically, an entry contains dates and
places of birth, marriage, death, burial, and other major events
including battles; names of children; titles and offices; and legal
records such as trials, wills and grants. Each entry is followed by a
list of sources, and an attempt has been made to provide documentation
for each generation. Footnotes list the names of colonial immigrants
who descend from the couples in the main entries.
This hefty volume, with 1000-odd pages and weighing in at more than 5
pounds, will perhaps seem expensive at $85, but you may soon start to
feel embarrassed at acquiring the fruits of such scholarship so
cheaply." END OF QUOTE
The book can be ordered direct from the author at his e-mail address:
douglasrichardson@royalancestry,net
Review of Plantagenet Ancestry:: RoyaList Online
Moderator: MOD_nyhetsgrupper
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D. Spencer Hines
Re: Review of Plantagenet Ancestry:: RoyaList Online
Quite True...And Well-Stated
Fair Enough, Douglas...
Let's keep reading ALL of them here on SGM.
YOU and WE should gain the benefits of reading the analyses and
critiques -- both pro and con -- sans censorship or elision or editorial
bias.
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
DSH
"Douglas Richardson" <douglasrichardson@royalancestry.net> wrote in
message news:2619efc9.0411111003.be5935@posting.google.com...
| Dear Newsgroup ~
|
| Sometime ago, Spencer Hines requested that I post reviews of my book,
| Plantagenet Ancestry, as I received them. I've seen several reviews
| so far, all of them favorable. I found the review below at RoyaList
| Online, which is an online royal genealogy database. The website
| address for the review is:
|
| http://www.royalist.info/execute/reviews
|
| Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
|
| = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
| "Reviews
| Introduction
|
| On this page we will include occasional reviews of books that are
| likely to be of significant interest to anyone investigating royal
| genealogy. If you have a suggestion for a book to be reviewed, or if
| you would like to submit a review for publication on this page, please
| send an e-mail to info@royalist.info.
|
| Plantagenet Ancestry : A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families
| by Douglas Richardson
| (Royal Ancestry Series, editor Kimball G. Everingham)
| Published 2004 by Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc.
| ISBN 0806317507
|
| If you are descended from early North American colonists, you may
| belong to one of the most famous families in history. With the
| publication of Douglas Richardson's "Plantagenet Ancestry", there is
| now an excellent single-volume source for researching your links to
| the family that produced a line of English kings.
|
| David Faris's "Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists",
| published in 1996, traced the legitimate descendants of King Henry III
| of England, a great-grandchild of Geoffrey Plantagenet. The new
| "Plantagenet Ancestry" is an expansion and revision of that work,
| tracing the descendants of 16 of Geoffrey's great-grandchildren, and
| is the first in a planned series on the ancestry of American colonial
| immigrants. Future volumes will cover descents from the Magna Carta
| signatories, early feudal English barons, and the Emperor Charlemagne.
|
| The new book documents lines of descent for approximately 190
| 17th-century North American colonists from the Plantagenet dynasty
| that ruled England between 1154 and 1485. It addresses three distinct
| audiences:
|
| 1. Those desiring a reliable reference for events and individuals
| in the colonial and medieval time periods.
| 2. Those family researchers seeking information about their more
| remote ancestry.
| 3. Those wishing to understand English history from a family
| viewpoint.
|
| The lines of descent are organised alphabetically by family name, but
| with the primary Plantagenet line (down to Richard II) filling the
| first 32 pages of the main section. The other lines occupy 774 pages,
| the bulk of the main section, and are followed by a comprehensive
| 78-page bibliography and an index of names.
|
| The wealth of detail in the book is astonishing, and will provide
| weeks of fascinating reading to anyone with an interest in English
| history. Each person featuring in a line of descent, and each of
| his/her spouses, is described in a mini-biography containing whatever
| salient details are known. Typically, an entry contains dates and
| places of birth, marriage, death, burial, and other major events
| including battles; names of children; titles and offices; and legal
| records such as trials, wills and grants. Each entry is followed by a
| list of sources, and an attempt has been made to provide documentation
| for each generation. Footnotes list the names of colonial immigrants
| who descend from the couples in the main entries.
|
| This hefty volume, with 1000-odd pages and weighing in at more than 5
| pounds, will perhaps seem expensive at $85, but you may soon start to
| feel embarrassed at acquiring the fruits of such scholarship so
| cheaply." END OF QUOTE
|
| The book can be ordered direct from the author at his e-mail address:
|
| douglasrichardson@royalancestry,net
Fair Enough, Douglas...
Let's keep reading ALL of them here on SGM.
YOU and WE should gain the benefits of reading the analyses and
critiques -- both pro and con -- sans censorship or elision or editorial
bias.
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
DSH
"Douglas Richardson" <douglasrichardson@royalancestry.net> wrote in
message news:2619efc9.0411111003.be5935@posting.google.com...
| Dear Newsgroup ~
|
| Sometime ago, Spencer Hines requested that I post reviews of my book,
| Plantagenet Ancestry, as I received them. I've seen several reviews
| so far, all of them favorable. I found the review below at RoyaList
| Online, which is an online royal genealogy database. The website
| address for the review is:
|
| http://www.royalist.info/execute/reviews
|
| Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
|
| = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
| "Reviews
| Introduction
|
| On this page we will include occasional reviews of books that are
| likely to be of significant interest to anyone investigating royal
| genealogy. If you have a suggestion for a book to be reviewed, or if
| you would like to submit a review for publication on this page, please
| send an e-mail to info@royalist.info.
|
| Plantagenet Ancestry : A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families
| by Douglas Richardson
| (Royal Ancestry Series, editor Kimball G. Everingham)
| Published 2004 by Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc.
| ISBN 0806317507
|
| If you are descended from early North American colonists, you may
| belong to one of the most famous families in history. With the
| publication of Douglas Richardson's "Plantagenet Ancestry", there is
| now an excellent single-volume source for researching your links to
| the family that produced a line of English kings.
|
| David Faris's "Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists",
| published in 1996, traced the legitimate descendants of King Henry III
| of England, a great-grandchild of Geoffrey Plantagenet. The new
| "Plantagenet Ancestry" is an expansion and revision of that work,
| tracing the descendants of 16 of Geoffrey's great-grandchildren, and
| is the first in a planned series on the ancestry of American colonial
| immigrants. Future volumes will cover descents from the Magna Carta
| signatories, early feudal English barons, and the Emperor Charlemagne.
|
| The new book documents lines of descent for approximately 190
| 17th-century North American colonists from the Plantagenet dynasty
| that ruled England between 1154 and 1485. It addresses three distinct
| audiences:
|
| 1. Those desiring a reliable reference for events and individuals
| in the colonial and medieval time periods.
| 2. Those family researchers seeking information about their more
| remote ancestry.
| 3. Those wishing to understand English history from a family
| viewpoint.
|
| The lines of descent are organised alphabetically by family name, but
| with the primary Plantagenet line (down to Richard II) filling the
| first 32 pages of the main section. The other lines occupy 774 pages,
| the bulk of the main section, and are followed by a comprehensive
| 78-page bibliography and an index of names.
|
| The wealth of detail in the book is astonishing, and will provide
| weeks of fascinating reading to anyone with an interest in English
| history. Each person featuring in a line of descent, and each of
| his/her spouses, is described in a mini-biography containing whatever
| salient details are known. Typically, an entry contains dates and
| places of birth, marriage, death, burial, and other major events
| including battles; names of children; titles and offices; and legal
| records such as trials, wills and grants. Each entry is followed by a
| list of sources, and an attempt has been made to provide documentation
| for each generation. Footnotes list the names of colonial immigrants
| who descend from the couples in the main entries.
|
| This hefty volume, with 1000-odd pages and weighing in at more than 5
| pounds, will perhaps seem expensive at $85, but you may soon start to
| feel embarrassed at acquiring the fruits of such scholarship so
| cheaply." END OF QUOTE
|
| The book can be ordered direct from the author at his e-mail address:
|
| douglasrichardson@royalancestry,net