See Time Magazine online, dated Monday, Nov. 03, 1947 titled The Great Horn Swoggle (sic). >From historians and the highest scholars back then, Horn had fabricated "history" and other people's "family history". The question that was never answered was why Horn did it. Did he set out to make a hoax? Or, did he embellish whatever "records" he had? Or, did he never have any records? The problem with "facts" is anyone can write something and claim it is "fact". "Ex-President Bush was born April 32, 1902." Was I? Well, if so, he should be dead by now (b. 1902)... and there's no "32" in a month. Now if I found this date in Horn about someone, I could say that he or the printer made a typo on the "32". But he went further than false / wrong dates. He told of non-existant towns, of non-existant Indian battles, of things that just could not be right. The debunking makes interesting reading. Judy On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:11 PM, <guyrossjr@aol.com> wrote: > I personally have not used the Horn collection for research.? But to me, it > would be no different than any other person writing a genealogy of a family > or families and for asking an older member of a family comments about their > ancestors.? I have found that while there is some truth in the contents, > there is also no facts in other comments or contents. Once, you have the > data and you are not sure, then the researcher should either prove or > disprove any statements that appear in a book or genealogy of a family. > > Family stories can be intriguing.?Once my mother-in-law and > sister-in-law?both told a story about my mother-in-law's grandfather as > having drown in Pennsylvania.? While riding close to a river, he was caught > up in a flood and when they recovered the body he was still holding on to > the reins. We looked and looked and could find nothing about this.? One day, > while researching in Jay Co., Indiana, my husband picked up a History of > Adams Co., Indiana. Checked the index and there was the name of his > great-grandfather. It told the story of a man and his neighbor that were > riding in a horse-drawn wagon being caught up in a flood in Adams Co.? He > drown in the racing waters of the St. Mary's & Wabash rivers in 1867.? When > they pulled him from the river, he was still holding on to the reins.? This > was the grandfather that was suppose to have died in Pennsylvania. ?So be a > sleuth and once you have data prove it or disprove it! > > Roberta