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The fraudulent Coligny-Rapalje descent
(Annals of Genealogical Research, 2006)
Jerome B. Holgate, in his American Genealogy (fictitiously dated 1848), derives the Rapalje family from an alleged Gaspard Colet de Rapalje "born in France, at Châtillon, sur Loire, in 1505." We suggest that this personage ...
A Characterization of Wilson-Lerch Primes
(Integers, 2016-07)
This note presents criteria in terms of Bernoulli numbers for a prime to be simultaneously a Wilson prime and a Lerch prime.
The ver Veelen family in Cologne and Amsterdam
(New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2004)
The Family of Hendrick Cock of Amsterdam
(New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2011)
A matrix variation on Ramus's identity for lacunary sums of binomial coefficients
(International Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science / Lebanese University, Beirut, 2017-01)
We study the well-known lacunary sums of binomial coefficients considered, most notably, by Christian Ramus, and their connection to a special kind of harmonic number associated with the first case of Fermat's Last Theorem. ...
Lenaerts and Sassenbroeck, ancestors of the Nevius Family of New Netherland
(New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2009)
Recent Literature on the Duncanson Sisters of New Netherland
(New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2013)
On the Andrews Congruence for the Fibonacci Quotient
(Fibonacci Association, 2015-11)
We show that a congruence discovered by George E. Andrews in 1969 for the Fibonacci quotient directly implies a simpler congruence found by Hugh C. Williams in 1991.
The Stoughtons of New England: Their alleged Elys-Notebeme ancestry
(Foundations / Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, 2003-01)
An interesting descent from Thomas Elys, a late-fourteenth-century M.P. for Sandwich, is claimed for the precursors of the New England Stoughtons in the 1619-21 Visitation of Kent. However, evidence of telescoping in the ...
The Amsterdam years of Joseph Margetts, father-in-law of Adriaen Hegeman of New Netherland
(New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2000)