John Okeden

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Doubtful Existence

This profile was created on the basis of the book The Ogden Family in America, which was published in 1907 several years after the death of principal author William Ogden Wheeler. Wheeler had not found immigrant John Ogden's English origins, but after Wheeler's death, his book was completed and published by others who "made [the] unfortunate mistake [of] unsuspectingly enlisting the assistance of Gustave Anjou, possibly the most notorious generator of fraudulent genealogical records and pedigrees of recent times."^[1] As a result of Anjou's involvement, the book presented an account of English origins that cited nonexistent parish registers and other records and "have been demonstrated to be without any basis in fact,"^[1] but that may be encountered in Internet genealogies and other works derived from the 1907 book.

Biography

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Hart, Frederick C., Jr. "Pressing Rewind, Reconsidering John Ogden Of Rye", The New York Genealogical And Biographical Record, Volume 146 (2015), page 34.