Robert C. Gunderson

Robert C. Gunderson was the first supervisor of the Genealogical Society of Utah's Royalty Identification Unit. He invented the term "pedigree collapse". [cite web|url=http://www.generations.on.ca/genealogy/pedigree.htm|title=Pedigree Collapse|accessdate=2007-12-24]

Career

Gunderson started with the Genealogical Society of Utah in 1964cite web|url=http://www.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com/pastdispatches/mountain/mountain_7.html|title=Schoumatoff Interview (1977?)|accessdate=2007-12-24] and started the Royalty Identification Unit in 1972..

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" [cite web|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bbunce77/AllCuzzins.html|title=Roots Web Forum|accessdate=2007-12-24] .

Gunderson died before 2003. [cite web|url=http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2003-10/1067508312|title=Rootsweb reference|accessdate=2007-12-24] .

References

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