-----Original Message----- From: First Families <firstfamilies@linkline.com> To: WASHINGTON-L@rootsweb.com <WASHINGTON-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, November 29, 1998 4:10 PM Subject: [WASHINGTON-L] FRAUDULENT LINEAGES >Hi Everyone > >At sometime during a family genealogy search we all are >going to face the problem of a Fraudulent Lineage. > >This is a something that is running rampant in this age of >mass information. > >We have opened a new page on our web site that addresses >this problem. > >There are over One Hundred family "genealogies" listed that >have been corrupted by one person......<snipped> You know, that's absolutely right, Harold. That's why, when we received information from any outside source, including the net, that we must verify it ourselves. Even good, solid information that comes from other researchers should include citations so that we can go to that cite and confirm the information for our own records. Would hate to think that I was chasing the wrong "Sarah" or "Susan." Come-to-think-of-it, I have chased the wrong person before when I took someone else's information as fact! Oops. Thanks for your help in this area! Susan