Robert C. Gunderson
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Robert C. Gunderson (6 December 1931–23 June 2003[1]) was the first supervisor of the Genealogical Society of Utah's Royalty Identification Unit. He invented the term "pedigree collapse".[2]
[edit] Career
Gunderson started with the Genealogical Society of Utah in 1964[3] and started the Royalty Identification Unit in 1972.[3].
He and his two assistants attempted to find all the descendants of Edward IV of England.
At the World Conference on Records in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1980 in his address, "Connecting Your Pedigree Into Royal, Noble and Medieval Families," Robert C. Gunderson, first propounded the concept of Pedigree Collapse[4].
[edit] References
- ^ Social Security Death Index
- ^ "Pedigree Collapse". http://www.generations.on.ca/genealogy/pedigree.htm. Retrieved 2007-12-24.
- ^ a b "Schoumatoff Interview (1977?)". http://www.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com/pastdispatches/mountain/mountain_7.html. Retrieved 2007-12-24.
- ^ "Roots Web Forum". http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bbunce77/AllCuzzins.html. Retrieved 2007-12-24.
[edit] Other sources
- Shoumatoff, Alex (1985) (in en-us). The Mountain of Names: A History of the Human Family. New York: Simon and Schuster. pp. 318. ISBN 0-671-49440-6.
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