no such person. It is a big ripoff. The outfit is Halbert's. The bane of genealogy world. It is nothing but a census list and old phone list of BIRCH names. That sum it. and BIRCH is way way too common to worth it and even worse, the name is interchangable with BURCH! for more info about Halbert's - see the website: http://www.wwnet.net/~krugman1/gentext/scam.txt http://www.ancestry.com/home/Dick_Eastman/eastoct20.htm#Halbert http://www.baronage.co.uk/bphtm-01/caveat02.html http://kingsfield.com/brusca/beware.htm (hey, this one site spoke of Sharon Taylor, a ficticious person) W. David Samuelsen, listmanager Kathleen Burnett wrote: > > Has anyone heard of the following book: The New World Book of Birch > printed in Bath Ohio the only name I could find as Author was Sharon > Tayler > > I am fighting my friend who wants to purchase it for $39,95. I am > telling him it is a scam. He says it is the real thing. Has anyone > heard of it. > > Kathleen Burnett > > ============================== > Search more than 274 MILLION NAMES and find your ancestors at Ancestry.com! > Get started today at http://www.ancestry.com/rootswebtext.asp