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<blockquote>Armchair historians, family-tree climbers, and professionals are all among the guilty. Many are well-meaning folk who "just got carried away" by imagination, enthusiasm, or inexperience. Others are, yes, quite calculating in their deceit.<ref name="NGSQ87">Gary B. Mills and Elizabeth Shown Mills, "Hoodwinks, Tomfoolery, and Fakelore," ''National Genealogical Society Quarterly'' 87 (1999): 259.</ref> </blockquote> | <blockquote>Armchair historians, family-tree climbers, and professionals are all among the guilty. Many are well-meaning folk who "just got carried away" by imagination, enthusiasm, or inexperience. Others are, yes, quite calculating in their deceit.<ref name="NGSQ87">Gary B. Mills and Elizabeth Shown Mills, "Hoodwinks, Tomfoolery, and Fakelore," ''National Genealogical Society Quarterly'' 87 (1999): 259.</ref> </blockquote> | ||
As a result, it is important to track down the original records cited in compiled genealogies. Genealogy reseacher, Carmen J. Finley, said,<ref name="NGSQ87_295">Carmen J. Finley, Ph.D., CG, "Checking the Authenticity of Cited Documents: A Finley-Hess Hoodwink in Colonial Pennsylvania," ''National Genealogical Society Quarterly'' 87 (1999): 295.</ref> | As a result, it is important to track down the original records cited in compiled genealogies. Genealogy reseacher, Carmen J. Finley, said,<ref name="NGSQ87_295">Carmen J. Finley, Ph.D., CG, "Checking the Authenticity of Cited Documents: A Finley-Hess Hoodwink in Colonial Pennsylvania," ''National Genealogical Society Quarterly'' 87 (1999): 295.</ref> | ||