It is a waste of money. They put one of these books out on every name they find in the phone book. It is just a soft cover book with some general genealogy information and heraldry stuff and then a list of all the Gordons (or whatever surname you order) they could find in phone books around the world. I would suspect in this case it would be limited to a certain geographical region given the number of Gordons around the world. I got one a few years ago on my Surname Stirrett called the World Book of Stirretts. It's a scam. Russ [email protected] wrote: > I received literature today from Bath, OH, advertising a pending book > entitled "The New World Book of Gordons". Has anyone else received this > literature. Also, could this be the same Ohio branch of Gordon's that does > not follow thru on things?