Hi, I received this on another list in regard to the posting about the Genealogy Rip-Off.  It basically says that this particular company is NOT connected to Halberts!!  You can decide for yourself or check it out further.     This is not Halbert's under another a different name.  This company has been in business foe sometime and is not the genealogy sore thumb that Halberts was. ****************************************************** >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> RBOYD1033@aol.COM wrote: > Subject: Rip-offs of the genealogy community continues > > Good Morning, friends and cousins in the genealogy community! > > The response to the identification of the genealogy rip-off operation > in Denver last week has been tremendous with a steady stream of requests > for add'l info. > > The operation in Denver with a newly discovered "branch" in Utah is an > incarnation of the identical scheme that Halbert's used.  The same form > letters, books and newsletters are being sold, and the same fake > "Crests" and other products are being created "to exacting standards". > > The new incarnation has not yet been linked financially to Halbert?s or > NUMA (Halbert parent), but the resemblance is so  close, they could be > joined at the hip, operating under dba's  Mountain West News Service, > Mountain Pacific News Service, and MORPHCORP. The Better Business Bureau > reports that the company has joined the BBB in January 2000, opened in > 1985, and is rated as satisfactory. A complete history of Halbert's, > courtesy of Jeff Scism (despite our surname homonyms, we ain't kin --- > he hopes!) is available at > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~blksheep/shame/halberts.htm >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>   No, that is not Halberts. That is the Family New Network. They have been in operation for about ten years or so. They use various company names but all these "companies" have the same mailing address in Denver. Check with either the National Genealogical Society or the Federation of Genealogical Societies. They have been tracking this Denver outfit's business for years. The person who wrote the original message apparently just discovered this company but lots of other people in the genealogy world have known about them for a long time. Apparently he never checked with either the National Genealogical Society or the Federation of Genealogical Societies. If he had, he would have been given correct info instead of what he wrote. Dick Eastman *******************************************************