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The popularity of genealogy, encouraged by the increasing use of the Internet is encouraging a number of people to mass-market what authorities regard as scam "genealogical books" which are sometimes promoted by affiliated websites. They tend to contain a general introduction, a section about the origin of surnames in general, a section about heraldry, a couple of blank charts for the purchaser to copy and complete once he has done his own research, a few recipes and (sometimes) a list of names, addresses and telephone numbers culled from the publicly available telephone directories.〔(Ancestry.com - Genealogy Scams )〕 The books are not unique to a particular surname, are not published annually and contain no pictures of the buyer's family members. In a recent case, Jeffery Scism, a San Bernardino, California genealogist, said the fines for such practises are puny when compared with the hundreds of thousands of dollars he believes such vendors rake in.〔(Album seller settles case : More Business : The Rocky Mountain News ) 〕 Those who have sold such books so far include: * Burke's Peerage World Book of ''()''s - not to be confused with Burke's Peerage * Halberts Family Heritage - World Book of ''()''s * William Pince Publishers - SGN Genealogical Foundation * Maxwell MacMaster〔(MorphCorp LLC of Denver ) (State settles suit )〕 * The ''()'' Name in History. ==References== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Scam genealogical book」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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