[[Category:Charles Augustus Fernald Fabrications]] Charles Augustus Fernald published ''[https://archive.org/details/universalinterna00fern Universal International Genealogy and of the Ancient Fernald Families]'' in 1909. This is a wandering compendium of fabulous and impossible beliefs, which traces the Fernald ancestry to Adam and Eve, and claims many notables (e.g. Shakespeare, George Washington, God) as Fernalds. It has attracted ridicule and incredulity since its publication: ::"He pictures and translates inscriptions on pyramids, obelisks, papyrus, rocks, ivories, shells, corns, medals, implements, rings, seals, grave-stones, coats of arms, manuscripts. His favorite sources seem to be Egyptian records, Roman coins, Hebrew scriptures, the Moabite Stone, the Tablet of Abydus, an "ancient Chart Log," the American Indian mounds, the Newport Tower, Dighton Rock, and the Peter Faneuil Tomb in Boston — all of them translated by his own peculiar method." (Source: Delabarre, E. B., & Colonial Society of Massachusetts. (1919). Recent history of Dighton rock. Cambridge [Mass.: J. Wilson, p.362 [https://archive.org/stream/publicationscol30massgoog#page/n465/mode/1up Online at archive.org]) Noted New England genealogist Walter Goodwin Davis ridiculed CA Fernald's genealogy hilariously and at length, and is often quoted: :: "It has been the fate of many English and American families to have their pedigrees drawn up and their genealogies written by the ignorant, the credulous, or the fraudulent. While it is commonly and humorously stated that all genealogists are slightly mad, the Fernald family had the unique and dubious distinction of having a historian who was undeniably insane. In 1909 Charles Augustus Fernald, M.D., at what must have been considerable expense, published a book entitled '''Universal International Genealogy and of the Ancient Fernald Families'''. It is impossible to give in a short space an adequate idea of this extraordinary production. It must be seen, its wildly incoherent English read and its fantastic and often hilariously funny claims sampled before its very existence can be believed." (Sources: [https://familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/4448284 Family Search discussion of CA Fernald] and Sally & Allen Fernald, "[http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/FERNALD/2005-04/1112361331 Fernald Rootsweb] Subject: Re: [FERNALD] Charles Augustus Fernald's book," Fernald Rootsweb List, 01 Apr 2005) The International Genealogy includes real, made up, and supernatural persons, and both real Fernalds and historic individuals who C.A. Fernald admired. Unfortunately, some of its less-fantastic portions have been repeated on many public genealogy sites. Profiles listed in the attached [[:Category:Charles Augustus Fernald Fabrications|category]] have been affected by this fabrication; some are real people, some are not. Listing in this category does NOT mean that the profile itself is fraudulent; hopefully it is listed because the fabrication has been identified and corrected. If you find a new affected profile, add it to this category using the string [[Category: Charles Augustus Fernald Fabrications]], and add a brief comment about the fraud at the top of the profile. If you can't find other sources besides CA Fernald's International Genealogy for a profile (ask for G2G help), also add the template {{Uncertain Existence}}, detach it from any profiles of real people, and add a strong warning at the top of both real and unreal profiles to not reattach them. This helps prevent the creation of new versions of these fake profiles, since they will match to the existing documented and commented profiles. See also: * Walter Goodwin Davis, ''The Ancestry of Joseph Waterhouse'' (Portland, Maine, 1949), pp. 35-37, reprinted in ''Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis,'' ed. Gary Boyd Roberts, 3 vols. (Baltimore, 1996), 1:535-37, where attention is drawn to the passage in the editor’s introduction, at p. xviii. * John Blythe Dobson, “The fraudulent Coligny-Rapalje descent,” Annals of Genealogical Research Vol. 2, No. 1 (2006) at http://www.genlit.org/agr/viewarticle.php?id=10

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[[Category:Lamberhurst, Kent]] [[Category:Disproven Existence]] [[Category: Gaither Name Study]] ==The Real People at Beginning and End== The purpose of the pedigree was apparently to connect two real people. At the later end, [[Gater-7|John Gater]] was a real person, baptized 1604 in Lamberhurst, Kent, England. He was important to the pedigree because he, in turn, had been conflated with another John Gaither to become ancestor to most of the Gaithers in the United States. At the beginning, [[Gael-2|Ralph de Gael de Montfort]] and his wife [[FitzOsbern-23|Emma FitzOsbern]] were real people. Ralph was born in Brittany, and may well have accompanied William the Conqueror to Normandy, making him an attractive addition to one's pedigree. ==The False Gaither Pedigree== To further the Gaither pedigree, John Gater was given a line of ancestors stretching back to Ralph de Gael de Montford. The pedigree appears in many popular genealogies, including one [http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=bennettgaither&id=I03676&ti=%2C The Bennett/Gaither Clan/Descendency]. Regrettably, the entire pedigree has no sources and after discussion in G2G must be judged fake: See [https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1037865/disproven-existence-notice-a-gater-gaither-pedigree?show=1037865#q1037865 Disproven Existence Notice: A Gater-Gaither Pedigree]. The profiles in that pedigree, which appear below, have been added to the Disproven Existence Project. Since people who never existed cannot have parents, spouses or children, they have been delinked from their pedigree relationships, which appear below for reference. #[[Gader-2|Walter de Gader]] born 1076, Brittany with wife [[De Baladem-1|Emma de Baladem]], born about 1072, mother of Milo and Walter. #[[de Gader-1|Ralph de Gater]], born 1092 #[[de Gater-9|William de Gater]], born 1120 #[[de Gater-6|Richard de Gater]], born 1148 #[[de Gater-8|William de Gater]], born 1176 #[[Gater-131|Henry de Gater]], born 1205 #[[Gater-130|Henry Gater]], born 1233 #[[de Gater-4|John de Gater]], born 1262 #[[Gater-132|Nicholas Gater]], born 1291 #[[de Gater-1|Henry de Gater]], born 1260 #[[Gater-129|William Gater]], born 1294 #[[Gater-11|Nicholas Gater]], born 1331 #[[Gater-10|John Gater]] born 1366 #[[Gater-9|John Gater]], born 1403 #[[Gater-4|Edmund Gater]], born 1440 #[[Gater-8|John Gater]], born 1477 In addition to having no reliable sources, the dates of this pedigree have some obvious glitches; if you add the death dates, there are an unusual number of children born the year of the father's death.