Word: blauvelt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRANKLIN JOHNSON JR. Blauvelt...
...Louis Blauvelt died in 1959, at the age of 79, just two years after his genealogy was published...
Surviving Blauvelt family members say that "Uncle Louis" was a meticulous researcher and record keeper. For each entry in his genealogy, he kept an index card that referred to the source of his information. The card on Durie Malcolm cites only a letter from Howard Ira Durie of Woodcliff Lake, N.J. Howard Durie says his letter was "conversational," merely stated that he had seen a society column which noted that Durie Malcolm and Jack Kennedy had attended football games together in Miami...
...Blauvelt's daughter, Mrs. William Smith, insists that her father "wasn't sloppy in his work. He worked very hard and conscientiously on this genealogy. He cross-referenced, and was very thorough." But, she says, "I have no idea where the item about a Durie-Kennedy marriage came from. My father must have made a mistake." He was indeed slipshod in the paragraph in question. He spelled Durie's maiden name Malcom instead of Malcolm, reversed her first two marriages., and neglected to mention that for a decade before the publication of his genealogy she had been...
...thousands of people have asked for the most accessible copy of The Blauvelt Family Genealogy-in the local history and genealogy reference room of the Library of Congress; hundreds of others have examined a copy in the Washington headquarters of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The White House, in turn, has had hundreds of inquiries as to the authenticity of the paragraph...