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    1. Fake family trees online may trip up genealogists
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    3. Morning All Listers: I found this on the Free SurnameSearch site this AM and thought it was worth forwarding to alert everyone to this bogus program that the authors thinks is fun............. Genealogists beware. A software company is marketing a new program to Internet advertisers that could quickly generate Web sites full of extensive, but fake, family trees. Critics say the approach appears to be part of a new money-making scheme to lure people who search for family names on Google, Yahoo or other search engines to Web sites that use bogus data to help ensure they appear high on "hit lists." They then make money if visitors click on advertisers' links. To read the complete article go to the URL below......... Edd Sinnett in Florida. http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635160683,00.html

    11/29/2005 03:06:31