Shown here is a digital reproduction of the fictitious Whitney pedigree concocted by Mrs. Harriet Anne De Salis (1829-1908) and printed in S. Whitney Phoenix's 1878 The Whitney family of Connecticut, and its affiliations. Soon after his book's publication, Phoenix began to suspect that De Salis had deceived him, so he commissioned a prestigious genealogist, Joseph Lemuel Chester, to investigate -- Chester quickly discovered that De Salis' pedigree was a mix of authentic genealogical data with sources and documents that she had forged. The parentage and ancestry of Henry Whitney of Connecticut shown in the De Salis pedigree is fictitious.