Dear Sasser cousins, WARNING !!! Please read this carefully. The message Don posted asking about the book "THE SASSERS IN AMERICA; FROM 1790 TO 1997" is a commercial piece of fakery. This outfit that published this book, was once a reputable business that produced coat's-of-arms. However, several years ago, it was bought out by the same bunch that originally took over the business "Beatrice Bailey, Inc." in Pennsylvania. They have been producing so-called "family heritage" books now for several years--at least since the 1970's. What they produced has absolutely NOTHING to do with family history. They wrote a brief book on how do do simple family research. Then they would go through telephone books, city directories and city water meter records, etc. to get names and addresses. They would print the book, then add the all the same names and addresses they could find on a few pages in the back of the book. I can remember when they were selling them for $19.95. Over the years, folks have sent me more than a dozen of these "heritage books" on different "families". This was when they were operating under the business name of "Beatrice Bailey, Inc." Their letters always made it sound like the "history books" or "heritage books" had actually been written about a particular family by this "grandmotherly type" Beatrice Bailey. WRONG! The only addition to the list of telephone listings they have added has been the inclusion of some names from the Social Security. Back in the 1980's the attorney general of Pennsylvania obtained a "cease and desist" order and they got run out of that state. At the same time, at least 14 other state's also ordered them to stop their fraudelent business. Eventually the US Post Office obtained a court order to seize their mail in Pennsylvania. They moved to Ohio and set up operation under another name. Again, they were ordered to cease operation. They the same bunch of shysters bought the "Halbert's" business and began publishing their books all over again. They changed the name from " "such-and-such family name" HERITAGE BOOK " to "The World Book of such-and-such family name". The National Genealogical Society and numerous other family history organizations, plus numerous state attorney's general offices have put out many warnings over the years about this bunch of money-grubbing shysters who prey upon folks who yearn to know something about their family history but end up with nary a thing about history. As for the name "EUGENE F. SASSER" at the end of the letter. Check and see if you can get ahold of a REAL person with their business by this name and you won't find him. As one cousin pointed out to me, they are using fake names just to lure suckers into buying their worthless books. These people have bilked thousands of folks out of lots of money over the years for fake "history" books. I have seen numerous of these "heritage" and "history" books and have more than a dozen different ones in my possession. I have had several HUNDRED letters from folks about this over the past several years. I WISH I had the money I have spent over the years just on postage answering questions about these fake history books! Your cuz, Robert Earl Woodham