Come and collaborate and share your knowledge of spurious pedigrees. Add links; add profiles; identify wishful thinking, leaps of fancy, mistakes since corrected but still in circulation ... and outright scams. from Fraudulent Genealogy by Lisa South, Certified Genealogist There are many reasons that people create fraudulent genealogies: 1. Family members that are trying to hide something...
Category: Shawnee Heritage Fraud Categories: Frauds and Fabrications | Native Americans Frauds and Fabrications This category compiles the WikiTree profiles that are based on the largely fictional work of Don Greene, called Shawnee Heritage. From Bill Deyo: "The Shawnee/Cornstalk children listed on the site (Wikitree) have no basis in fact that I know of and appear to be from that...boo...
This project is dedicated to identifying profiles, where facts do not match documents, or documents present confusing information. Please highlight the profiles of those persons, where extraordinary changes appear: new names, new social status, new documents not matching the past, and so on. If in your family tree, you have profiles that are associated with confusing documents, please add them...
This Project sheds light on who we are as a civilization. It illuminates the world tree on Geni.com where some profiles in it are fictional. The persons' names are added to profiles in the tree. When we also read the links Connected to this Project one will get a meaningful Learning. Contents: 1. Geni as Illusion ? 2. Fictional profiles 3. Profiles without written Sources 4. How to f...
Category: Horatio Gates Somerby Fraud Horatio Gates Somerby (1805-1872) was a 19th-century American genealogist who fabricated some of his genealogy. He successfully deceived most of his peers, who incorporated his deceptions into their work. In a 1933 article ("The Lawrence Family of Groton and Boston, Massachusetts," The American Genealogist. Vol. (1933), page 78ff.), G. Andrew Moriarty ob...
Imposters=An impostor (also spelled imposter) is a person who pretends to be somebody else, often to try to gain financial or social advantages through social engineering, but just as often for purposes of espionage or law enforcement.==Aim of this project==The aim of this project is to create a collection of profiles of all international imposters, feel free to add names and profiles to this p...
Have long wondered. When you find profiles claiming that you have found their roots right down to Adam and Eve. There is actually such a profile here at Geni. It becomes very hard to see these finding as credible and serious. Have asked them a number of times what they are basing their research on. It must be almost impossible to find sources that prove their assumptions. The risk is that some ...