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==Accuracy of Genealogies== | ==Accuracy of Genealogies== | ||
Genealogy is affected by forgeries, fakes, and frauds. Numerous fraudulent genealogies are known to exist and can be found in any major genealogical library, online or off. | Genealogy is affected by forgeries, fakes, and frauds. Numerous fraudulent genealogies are known to exist and can be found in any major genealogical library, online or off. | ||
<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 genealogy researcher, Carmen J. Finley, warned that it is important to track down the original records cited in compiled genealogies. Carmen said,<ref | As a result genealogy researcher, Carmen J. Finley, warned that it is important to track down the original records cited in compiled genealogies. Carmen said,<ref>>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> | ||
<blockquote>"Serious genealogists know not to believe everything in print. Honest mistakes happen. The accuracy of published record abstracts depends on many factors... Even more difficult to detect can be the misguided alterations and deliberate deceptions by seemingly sincere authors who tamper with evidence or manufacture it outright. No researcher really wants to consider such a likelihood."</blockquote> | <blockquote>"Serious genealogists know not to believe everything in print. Honest mistakes happen. The accuracy of published record abstracts depends on many factors... Even more difficult to detect can be the misguided alterations and deliberate deceptions by seemingly sincere authors who tamper with evidence or manufacture it outright. No researcher really wants to consider such a likelihood."</blockquote> | ||
=== The Horn Papers === | === The Horn Papers === | ||
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