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Come 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. What is a spurious pedigree? It is an origin story that is false. A spurious pedigree is a lineage or history that is not authentic; it's been made up or misrepresented. Impact When som...
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...