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[M.Sjostrom]

"...desperate to have some sort of royal ancestry
through him."

"It wouldn't be the first time, and won't be the
last."

"...If these claims are..."

"...products of inventive genealogy,..."

"They certainly seem to be bogus."

".. As is typical, there is nothing in the book to
substantiate the various, typical, and conflicting
oral traditions about the identity of this Joseph Howe
reported in that book..."


It would be well to recall that the author of that
family book was a politician.
Apparently facts are: James Hoge Tyler (1846 - 1925)
was a U.S. political figure. He was Lieutenant
Governor of Virginia from 1890 to 1894, and Governor
of Virginia from 1898 to 1902. He compiled The Family
of Hoge, published (posthumously) in 1927.

Politicians are those people who have a mind readily
aligned to "... I have a dream..."; and politicians
tend to have their own peculiar concept for the term
"truth", as misrepresentation or decoration of things
is commonly not alien to them.




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[Nathaniel Taylor]

In article <[email protected]>,
"M.Sjostrom" <[email protected]> wrote:

"...desperate to have some sort of royal ancestry
through him."

"It wouldn't be the first time, and won't be the
last."

"...If these claims are..."

"...products of inventive genealogy,..."

"They certainly seem to be bogus."

".. As is typical, there is nothing in the book to
substantiate the various, typical, and conflicting
oral traditions about the identity of this Joseph Howe
reported in that book..."

It would be well to recall that the author of that
family book was a politician.
Apparently facts are: James Hoge Tyler (1846 - 1925)
was a U.S. political figure. He was Lieutenant
Governor of Virginia from 1890 to 1894, and Governor
of Virginia from 1898 to 1902. He compiled The Family
of Hoge, published (posthumously) in 1927.

Politicians are those people who have a mind readily
aligned to "... I have a dream..."; and politicians
tend to have their own peculiar concept for the term
"truth", as misrepresentation or decoration of things
is commonly not alien to them.

I don't think there's anything significant in the fact that the compiler
happened to be a politician. Many respectable professional men in the
USA wrote such genealogies in the 1880s to 1930s. The degree to which
they were guilty of credulity and poor scholarship (or even conscious
genealogical fraud) was probably distributed equally among the
professions.

To this volume's credit, the Howe material is presented essentially as a
non-analytical reporting of the oral traditions about Joseph Howe's
kinship to the noble Howes. The author doesn't trouble himself to build
any genealogical claims above that, however: there is no specific royal
or medieval descent built atop the basic statement of some link to the
peerage family. Many such books are much worse in baldly distilling
certainty from guesses or wishes.

Nat Taylor
http://www.nltaylor.net