52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge - Week 7 - Love.
For this week's challenge, I chose Jean Valentine Ranc. He has the "Valentine" name and he is my 8x great grandfather. I met my first wikitree collaborator while working on this family, cousin SJ Baty. We both contributed to dispelling the myths and fraudulent claims about our ancestors. I am really proud of the work that we did on the Ranck family. I love it!
Rev
Jean
Valentine
[uncertain]
Ranc
aka Ranck
Born about in Paris, France
[uncertain]
[uncertain]
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Hans Valentine Ranck
Died in Neckarau, Mannheim, Holy Roman Empire
Categories: Huguenot Migration | Gustave Anjou Fraud | Ranck Name Study.
| Jean Ranc was a Huguenot emigrant. Join: Huguenot Migration Project Discuss: huguenot |
Disproven parents
NOTE: not the same person as Jean Duranc de Vibrac sieur de Coussargues[1] [2]NOTE: This profile was previously linked as son to parents seigneur Etienne du Ranc seigneur de Vibrac et de Saint Nazaire and Jeanne (Pelet) de Pelet de Combas. These links have been disproven. Please do not connect this profile to these parents - this widely circulated lineage has been disproven - see the note below and in the profile comments.
NOTE: There is a known Gustave Anjou (known fraudster) genealogy that exists for Jean Ranc. We know, through source documents that Jean Ranc exists but the Anjou genealogy casts doubt on much of the early history of Jean, notably that he originates from France and that he was a Huguenot refugee.[3]
Biography
This profile is part of the Ranck Name Study.
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- 1699: On 17 Febr., HANS VELTIN RANCK, son of VELTIN RANCK, here, was married to MARGRETH, daughter of the late HEINRICH PHILIPES, former citizen of Mannheim. [3]
Huguenot or Not?
In "Ranck Family Research Summary", John Ranck presents what is known and not known about the Ranck family's Huguenot origins. Anyone who is interested in the research of John P. Ranck can read his family research summary here.-
- "A Huguenot or Moravian Connection?
- I have been working with Art Lawton, Moravian historian currently completing his PhD in American Folk History at Indiana University, to try to sort out the fact and fiction in our family's connection with the Moravians, a protestant sect that, in France, could have been classified as "Huguenot." "
Jean died 27 December 1712 In Neckarau, Germany.[4]
Disputed Origins
An incorrect connection between Jean Ranc and noble parents Etienne Duranc de Vibrac and Jeanne de Pelet de Combas has circulated widely on the internet. Most of the ancestry websites carry this myth and it has been accepted as fact for several years. However, records do exist that show that Jean Ranc is a different person than Jean Duranc de Vibrac sieur de Coussargues.The Ranc-Duranc myth was propagated widely after J. Allan Ranck's "The Rank of the Rancks" was published in 1978. This book suggested that a connection existed between the Ranc and Duranc families. J. Allan Ranck suggested a connection but offered no evidence or sources to back such a claim.[5]
John P. Ranck's "What do we really know about the origins or our Ranck family," goes even farther calling into question the origin of Jean Ranc. John Ranck points out that it is only through family legend that we attribute a French nativity to Jean and explains that the official record of the Ranc/Ranck family begin in Germany. Further, he points out that a Ranc family tree was created by known fraudster and today we don't know how much of the family tradition was passed down within the Ranck family and how much was inserted as a result of the bogus ancestry research.[3]
There is a record that a Jean Du Ranc at Aubenas who converted to Protestantism and baptized his 3 sons at the Reformed Church at Aubenas.[6] This Jean however, was born in the 16th century. It is possible that, because he shared the name with the Jean of this profile that some connection was assumed. While there is no evidence connecting these Du Ranc members to Jean Ranc, further study on this topic is warranted.
Religion
Lutheran (Huguenot) [Uncertain]Research Notes
NOTE: There is a G2G discussion topic open for this profile: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/576672/researching-huguenot-reverand-jean-rancSources
- ↑ Francis de STORDEUR. "https://gw.geneanet.org/fdst?lang=fr&iz=65764&p=jean&n=du+ranc+de+vibrac&oc=1." Geneanet. Accessed 17 March 2018.
- ↑ Judgement of nobility (reading of the will of Bernadin du Ranc de Vibrac), signed 5 Dec 1668 in Montpellier, France. Accessed on 17 March 2018 at: http://jac.deschard.pagesperso-orange.fr/Page%20C.htm
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Ranck, John P., What do we really know about …The Origins of our Ranck family? " 5 March, 2013. http://jpranck.net/JPR/MiscGenealogyDocs/What%20do%20we%20really%20know.pdf." J. P. Ranck Genealogy. Accessed 17 Mar 2018.
- ↑ Neckarau Church records. Accessed [[Baty-260|SJ Baty 8 June 2018 at http://ranck.org/J251/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=745.
- ↑ Ranck, J. Allen. The Rank of Rancks. Lebanon, PA: Sowers Printing Co., 1978. http://ranck.org/J251/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=415&Itemid=671
- ↑ Dictionary of old or notable French families at the end of the 19th century. Paris, France: Charles & Paul Herrisey., 1917. p. 173. Accessed 23 March 2018 at https://archive.org/stream/dictionnairedesf15chai/dictionnairedesf15chai_djvu.txt
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