Julius Billiter

I'd be very interested to know. I came across a note of mine from 1993 that Billeter's original handwritten notes (not just the parts that have been transcribed) are available in 33 films from the library in Salt Lake City.

I was thinking that would almost be worth a special trip!

You know, maybe we need an "umbrella" project or two on debunking genealogies, as well as classic mistakes genealogy enthusiasts make. There are a lot of old pedigrees in circulation which may have been well enough intended at the time but are since disproven.

We can be the Snopes team!

So far we have Fake or Prtened Profiles:

http://www.geni.com/projects/Fake-or-Pretend-Profiles-on-geni-com

And, Fictional Genealogy:

http://www.geni.com/projects/Fictional-Genealogy

And, of course,

Gustav Anjou, Fraudulent Genealogist:

http://www.geni.com/projects/Gustav-Anjou-Fraudulent-Genealogist

http://www.geni.com/projects/Fictional-Genealogy is the portal i wanted and never knew about.

The "fake" profie project to me is joke profiles (Donald duck or my sister Beyonce). That's housekeeping.

Here's a quick clip of unreliable American sources

According to American Genealogist (July 1976), the following "are so unreliable that nothing they say should be accepted without clear and unmistakable verification": Gustave Anjou, Charles H. Browning, C. A. Hoppin, Orra E. Monnette, Horatio Gates Somerby, Frederick A. Virkus and John S. Wurts.

http://www.genealogy.com/15_genes.html

Erica, I am all over it!!! Let's get something going, to be sure! Justin, what we are doing just doesn't cut it--especially considering where these pathways connect and don't. People are continuing to use this info and they are the ones doing all this constant merging, causing a bigger mess than we had a year ago! Many of our lines are now so strange--grandfathers that are cousins (well, a few are, these incestuous Colonials) now; the list is endless. I would like to see some stricter guidelines, or something, especially for mad-mergers and curators...

Go for it. This would be a great project for you guys!