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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: 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...
There have been attempts in previous centuries to link the Bogart family to the kings of Holland via Edvardus Bogardus' wife Anneke Jans by making her the child of a Wolfert Webber. George O. Zabriskie concludes his article with the statement (regarding the disproved notion of a royal ancestry for Anneke Jans), "Predictably, those of extreme bias and ineptitude, while basking vicariously in 'fa...
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...