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Of course, no one may ever know exactly what information BYRON provided
to the American Historical Society concerning himself or his family when he
commissioned them to research the FOYs but, if it was of the same vain as the

information he provided to society page writers in New York newspapers, its
integrity is suspect.

I’ ll cite one example. Various newspaper items about BYRON reported he
graduated from the University of Texas in Austin, Texas and was a respected
engineer, etc. Records at the University of Texas, however, indicate he only
attended the university during the school year 1912-1913. His record reflects no
grade higher than a D. He did NOT graduate from that esteemed school.

Those “Texas cousins” of BYRON’s who have done extensive FOY research
have discovered many errors in the work done by the AHS research department
for the AHS FOY document. One example; the AHS researchers confused some
of the FREDERICK FOYs in BYRON’s lineage. Specifically, they confused an
uncle and a nephew, both named FREDERICK. The AHS researchers traced
the uncle’s lineage to BYRON instead of the nephew’s, which, if they had been
paying attention to what they were doing and not playing loose with available

facts, that mistake could not have been made.

OFF TO A PROVISIONAL START

In summary, the AHS document seems to be the major source of the claims that
FRANCIS FOY was the first FOY of our line to come to America and that
THOMAS FOY was his son. Further, the AHS document claims that THOMAS,
the son of FRANCIS, was the father of five sons in North Carolina through
whom many existing FOYs trace their lineage. If the AHS document is the only
proof of those claims, we are off to a provisional start. That is, as we begin our
story of the FOYs WHO CAME TO TEXAS we need to understand that the initial

information regarding our early beginnings are in question and I will keep
reminding you of that as we go along.

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