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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...
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...
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...
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...