Genealogy Projects tagged with fake on the Geni Family Tree

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  • Forgery of Documents, Falsification of Nobility and Strange Cases

    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...

  • Fictional Genealogy

    Many invented and fictional people have been inserted into genealogical collections, generally as part of an attempt to fill in the blanks, but also to connect cultures and justify claims to an ancient history.>Profiles for invented and fictional people often become battleground among genealogists. == Purpose ==> This project collects and identifies people for whom no historical evidence exists...

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  • Testing for Fake Medieval and Ancient Lines

    This project will help users diagnose fake medieval and ancient lines on Geni. Instructions Click on the profile. Geni will display the profile in Profile View. At the top you will see a relationship path from you to that profile. You might need to click the button labeled "How Are You Related?" to calculate the relationship. If the profile is not connected to the World Family Tree you wil...

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  • Gustav Anjou, Fraudulent Genealogist

    This project documents lineages where information is circulating that was taken from the work of Gustav Anjou (1863-1952), sometimes spelled Gustave Anjou, an infamous genealogical inventor whose meticulous but fraudulent research influenced the family "histories" of many prominent American families in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Add profiles to this project if you know that the prof...

  • Shawnee Heritage Fraud

    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...

  • Fake Profiles

    Purpose==NOTE: This project was formerly known by the name: "Fake and Pretend Profiles on geni.com :)For the purposes of this project, " fake profiles " are defined as profiles that are fictional characters. Examples are characters from cartoon, movies, books, video games, TV, corporate advertising or other media.This project also includes profiles created by real users claiming to be fictional...

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  • Geni as Illusion?

    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...

  • Provenance and Images

    To investigate and cleanup images which may or may not actually depict the purported subject. © © 1909 : Jan Pieter VETH ‧ 1864-1925 ‧ kunst-schilder ‧ & ‧ © year : Tom HAARTSEN ‧ w:Ouderkerk a/d Amstel -NLD ‧ fotograaf ‧ || ‧ Coll.ABN‧AMRO ‧ Hist.Archief A'dam ‧ eigendom onbekend ‧ provenance onbekend ‧ & ‧ © portret : Erven Nalatenschap: Benjamin Willem BLIJDENSTEIN ‧ 1839-1914 ‧ & ‧ © beel...

  • Imposters

    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...

  • What Remains of Edith Finch Family Tree

    Welcome to the Finch Family Tree!==This Project is to show the Finch family tree from the game known as "What Remains of Edith Finch" which is a game about a girl named Edith Finch finding out about her family history and the curse that they supposedly carry, each generation has a strange cause of death, from decapitation to severe poisoning. This project is also a extension of the Fake Profile...

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  • oseriös forskning på Geni

    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 ...

  • Harry Potter Tree {Fictional}

    Description:==This is a sub-project of the FAKE Profiles.The main goal is to merge all of the Harry Potter profiles & maintain them, while keeping this tree DISCONNECTED from real profiles===Main Harry Potter Tree:===* Link to Main Tree ==Note to those wanting to manage these profiles==>You are most welcome to come & help us keep them accurate & prevent them getting smerged into other trees. Re...