Ulster County, N.Y. Probate Records

Date: 1665 to 1906
Location: [unknown]

Contents 1 Ulster County, N.Y. Probate Records 1.1 What Links Here 1.2 Discussion 1.3 Available online at these locations: 1.4 Citing

Ulster County, N.Y. Probate Records

This book is a compilation of wills and probate records for Ulster County, New York, compiled by Gustave Anjou and published by him in two volumes in New York City in 1906:

• Volume I: Ulster County, N.Y. probate records in the Office of the Surrogate, and in the County Clerk's Office at Kingston, N.Y. Volume 1, 1906.

Subtitle on Volume I is "A Careful Abstract and Translation After Intestates, and Inventories from 1665, with Genealogical and Historical Notes, and List of Dutch and Frisian Baptismal Names with Their English Equivalents."

• Volume II: Ulster County, N.Y. Probate Records in the Office of the Surrogate at Kingston, N.Y., in the Surrogate's Office, New York, and in the Library of Long Island Historical Society.

Subtitle on Volume II is "A Careful Abstract and Translation of Dutch and English Wills, Letters of Administration after Intestates, and Inventories, with Genealogical and Historical Notes."

It was republished as a single volume entitled Ulster County, New York Probate Records, Genealogical Publishing Company, 2009. Google Books preview

What Links Here

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Discussion

Although Gustave Anjou later became notorious as a purveyor of fraudulent genealogies (see Category: Gustave Anjou Fraud), this publication is thought to be legitimate. Noted genealogist Gordon Remington, who has analyzed and debunked some of Anjou's frauds, called Ulster County Probate Records Anjou's "only legitimate work," noting that "it was the only work that was published as a general reference book (as opposed to everything else he wrote, which were all typescripts targeting a particular surname)." He further explained: "My take on it is that Anjou was not attempting to defraud anyone with the Ulster County book - the scale of the return would have been too small. It was a self published hard cover book and probably cost him quite a bit to publish."^[1] However, he noted that an article in the NYGBR had pointed out examples of errors/embellishments in Anjou's notes about the families associated with the wills and other documents transcribed in the publication. The NYGBR article mentioned is Louise Hasbrouck Zimm, "Lieutenant Gysbert Crom of Esopus, New York (Was He a Step-son of Jan Joosten Van Meteren?)". The last paragraph of that article states: "Gustave Anjou, in his notes appended to the will of Jan Joosten van Meteren [in Vol. 1 of the Probate Records book], gives a wildly erroneous account of Gysbert, supposed son of Jan Joosten, his marriage and descendants."^[2]

Note by WikiTreer: I have also seen serious errors in the family pedigrees in the footnotes in this publication, which generally lack source citations. I conclude that Anjou's footnotes should be viewed with caution. - Smith-62120 18:12, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

Notes

1. ↑ Remington, Gordon. "Anjou's only legitimate work?" Posted at APG-L on Mon, 30 May 2005 09:52:55 -0700 (PDT) . APG-L Archives > 2005-05 > 1117471975. Note: No longer available on the Internet; page is indexed at https://web.archive.org/web/20090123235649/http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/APG/2005-05 but it is not archived.
2. ↑ Zimm, Louise Hasbrouck. "Lieutenant Gysbert Crom of Esopus, New York (Was He a Step-son of Jan Joosten Van Meteren?)", The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. 81 (October 1950). Pages 197-202.

Available online at these locations:

• Hathi Trust (both volumes): https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008734144
• Volume I, Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=l_cLAAAAYAAJ
• Volume I, Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/cu31924068180532
• Volume II, Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=y_cLAAAAYAAJ
• Volume II, Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/ulstercountynypr02anjo_0

Citing

• Source Examples:

Volume 1:

Anjou, Gustave. ''[[Space:Ulster County, N.Y. Probate Records|Ulster County, N.Y. Probate Records]]'', Vol. I. New York City, 1906.

Volume 2:

Anjou, Gustave. ''[[Space:Ulster County, N.Y. Probate Records|Ulster County, N.Y. Probate Records]]'', Vol. II. New York City, 1906.