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>Deseret Morning News, Saturday, November 12, 2005 >Fake family trees online may trip up genealogists >By Lee Davidson >Deseret Morning News >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. > >They worry that novices might download false >information that is designed to look real, and then >corrupt others' family trees if they share that bad >data online or through family history databases such >as those offered by The Church of Jesus Christ of >Latter-day Saints or the commercial Utah-based >Ancestry.com...<p> > >For the rest of the story, click here: ><a rel=nofollow target=_blank >href="http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,635160683,0 >0.html">Fake Family Trees Online</a>.

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