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Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson

Many of the references on Wikitree are from Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson, 2013.

Douglas Charles Richardson could be connected to LDS????

Douglas Charles Richardson (born April 16, 1951, Sacramento, California) is an American genealogist, historian, lecturer, and author based in Salt Lake City in Utah. He has researched cases involving all periods of American research from colonial to the modern times. He has written extensively on the genealogy of medieval English gentry families and English royalty

There are three titles in this series:

  • Plantagenet Ancestry originally published in 2004. 2nd edition published in 2011. Vol. 1-3.
  • Magna Carta Ancestry originally published in 2005. 2nd edition published in 2011. Vol. 1-4
  • Royal Ancestry published in 2013. Vols. 1-5

Plantagenet Ancestry, the first book of this series, is an expansion and extensive revision of an earlier work by David Faris:
Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists (1996 & 1999).

Searching for these works it would appear that the geneological business has got "its hooks into this" big-time.

The usual suspects when making a search for "Douglas Richardson":

  • https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Sources-Douglas_Richardson%27s_Ancestry_Series
  • http://www.royalancestry.net/ - looks like domain is for sale and is just a search and a front for ancestry.com
  • https://www.amazon.co.uk/Royal-Ancestry-5-Douglas-Richardson/dp/1731049943
  • https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/49324/ - all links lead to trial membership
  • https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/19722919
  • https://www.abebooks.com/9781463561680/Royal-Ancestry-Study-Colonial-Medieval-1463561687/plp $255.55US
  • https://search.worldcat.org/title/Royal-ancestry-:-a-study-in-colonial-and-medieval-families/oclc/840828655
  • https://archive.org/details/plantagenetances0000rich/page/n9/mode/2up - limited preview
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Richardson

As the Wikitree website says there are links to where Douglas found the information that he has in his books. Some of the archive.org links are to scans that have only limited preview access and you still need to "join" to view. (That is if the websites are still alive - plantagenetances0000rich for exmple)

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What Wikitree say:

Richardson's book are available for purchase and are not available for free on the internet. However, many of the sources he used are available for free online. Below is a list of these sources with links to information about each source, including where to find it free of charge on the internet.

I will transcribe a list here:

Many of the links lead eventually to ancestry.com or myHeritage.com, others are to individual family histories.

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