The message below appeared on another website to which I subscribe: It was recently brought to my attention that there is a new site called fakefamily that created a software program that produces fake genealogy family trees and posts them to the web. The purpose of this is to bring advertising revenues to websites. There are sites who use advertisers, such as google (like on my page) or private advertisers to bring revenue. Many of us who use it do so to help pay for a legitimate site (like me), but some abuse the set up and have created these fake family trees, google and yahoo put them in their search engine as a genealogy website, and then when folks search for genealogy sites, these come up with completely bogus families only to bring users to the site and earn money in a very underhanded way, and in my opinion, unethical! This is a potentially huge threat to Internet genealogy! The reason being that, especially for beginning genealogists, they find names online, and take it for granted that everything is correct and they never verify the information for themselves. The guy who created this software is well aware of this and has no sympathy for that happening with one of his fakefamilies. I want to take this opportunity to press upon you the importance of verifying EVERYthing you come across with genealogy and even history in general, with primary documents (birth, marriage, death certificates, court cases, etc.) rather than secondary sources (books, word of mouth, websites, etc). If you want to read some about the fakefamily site, here is a link. http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635160683,00.html