 | George Burnett - Genealogy - 1865 - 124 pages
...worthless. The errors of the Peerage are as nothing to the fables which we encounter everywhere. Families of notoriously obscure origin have their veins filled...evidence never to have had a corporeal existence. Other pedigrees contain a small germ of truth eked out with a mass of fiction, in the proportion of... | |
 | George Burnett - Genealogy - 1865 - 120 pages
...worthless. The errors of the Peerage are as nothing to the fables which we encounter everywhere. Families of notoriously obscure origin have their veins filled...evidence never to have had a corporeal existence. Other pedigrees contain a small germ of truth eked out with a mass of fiction, in the proportion of... | |
 | William Henry Whitmore, William Sumner Appleton - Genealogy - 1865 - 428 pages
...worthless. The errors of the Peerage are aa nothing to the fables which we encounter everywhere. Families of notoriously obscure origin have their veins filled...evidence, never to have had a corporeal existence. Other pedigrees contain a small germ of truth, eked out with a mass of fiction, in the proportion of... | |
 | Collectanea - 1881 - 428 pages
...worthless. The errors of the Peerage are as nothing to the fables which we encounter everywhere. Families of notoriously obscure origin have their veins filled...evidence never to have had a corporeal existence. Other pedigrees contain a small germ of truth eked out with a mass of fiction, in the proportion of... | |
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The immense majority of the pedigrees in the Landed Gentry, including more especially the Scottish pedigrees, cannot, I fear, be characterized as otherwise than utterly worthless. The errors of the Peerage are as nothing to the fables which we encounter... 