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Beware: Uncovering Your Ancestory (sic)
Beware: Uncovering Your Ancestory (sic)
Warning signs and red flags surround all mentions of Uncovering Your Ancestory, aka Genealogy: Uncovering Your Ancestry. The announcement of this ebook on GenealogyWise is disturbing with its superlatives. Naturally, no authorship or credentials are cited. Perhaps it is an attempt at humor; the grammar alone is laughable.
Some of the instant Buyer Beware items include:
= touting “ROYALTY” connections in all CAPS
= using bold only to highlight the IGI – in a copycat ad called “IGA”
= referencing the term “LDS Mormons” as common
= calling the Family History Library “Salt Lake City’s Central Library”
= giving the famed familysearch.org the address of “FamilySearch.com”
= mentioning the “3,400 FHCs” when there are 4,600; calling them “FCH”
= no listing of a Table of Contents
Note that there are “commissions” for “affiliates” who promote this ebook. And that there are limits due to the sites “prohivite” (sic) bandwidth.
There are many factual errors in addition to the odd grammar which seems to come from a source not in the U.S.A. If you follow links looking for other customer recommendations, you will find similar ads with a few “customers” whose web sites are selling alternative products. But there are numerous “risk free” notes and you’ll get an “instant rebate”, yet you must order quickly because the price will return to $37 after “this marketing test”. Don’t forget to get its “clickbank account” so you can join the scam.
Warning signs and red flags surround all mentions of Uncovering Your Ancestory, aka Genealogy: Uncovering Your Ancestry. The announcement of this ebook on GenealogyWise is disturbing with its superlatives. Naturally, no authorship or credentials are cited. Perhaps it is an attempt at humor; the grammar alone is laughable.
Some of the instant Buyer Beware items include:
= touting “ROYALTY” connections in all CAPS
= using bold only to highlight the IGI – in a copycat ad called “IGA”
= referencing the term “LDS Mormons” as common
= calling the Family History Library “Salt Lake City’s Central Library”
= giving the famed familysearch.org the address of “FamilySearch.com”
= mentioning the “3,400 FHCs” when there are 4,600; calling them “FCH”
= no listing of a Table of Contents
Note that there are “commissions” for “affiliates” who promote this ebook. And that there are limits due to the sites “prohivite” (sic) bandwidth.
There are many factual errors in addition to the odd grammar which seems to come from a source not in the U.S.A. If you follow links looking for other customer recommendations, you will find similar ads with a few “customers” whose web sites are selling alternative products. But there are numerous “risk free” notes and you’ll get an “instant rebate”, yet you must order quickly because the price will return to $37 after “this marketing test”. Don’t forget to get its “clickbank account” so you can join the scam.
Tags: affiliates, ebook, scam
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Permalink Reply by GeneJ on -
Hi all:
Thank you for this discussion, Unknown Ancestor. I had similar concerns about that separate posting, without even clicking on the hyperlink!
(1) A title or author's name was not included in the posting. Without an author's name and title, I could thus find no synopsis or peer review of the work. Ditto, couldn't know who the editor and publisher were.
(2) When I hovered over the link, the URL displayed didn't give me a warm and cozy feeling. (Hover before you jump!)
(3) I didn't see that our new member had joined any groups or participated in any other discussions. I did not find the customary traces to suggest "Lisette Palmer" had an interest in genealogy, at least there didn't seem to be ordinary returns for this member when I searched Google for ["Lisette Palmer" genealogy] (excluding the brackets).
Indeed, when I looked, it seems our new member had joined GenWise perhaps for the sole reason of creating that discussion.
In short, after my little "hovering" experience, I opted not to click and learn more.
There are so many really wonderful resources for family historians by noted authors, editors and publishers! Before others click/jump or shell out, I hope they'll inquire here or at the GenWise group, "Best Books for Genealogists."
Thanks again for commented. --GJ
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