Family Tree Template: Ancestry Scam

Monday, September 17, 2012

Ancestry Scam

The Ancestry blog posted a notice today about several apparently fraudulent genealogy Web sites that claim to have "the largest online genealogical search tool" and Besides the three sites mentioned in the Ancestry blog, there are other sites which also appear to be operated by Records Partner, such as www.ancestry-records.co.uk. Records Partner, in turn, appears to be a type of affiliate program -- one of several run by a Canadian company called Interactive Brands The genealogy-type sites which appear to be springing up from this program charge you to join up as a member, and then point you to the products offered by Records Partner - essentially links to other services.

On a related note, there are also other Web sites on the net which make money in similar ways. Another series of genealogy sites that I've run into appear to be run by a company that calls itself Software Doctor, Inc. These include a host of sites such as birthrecords.ws, pennsylvania-records.com, freerecordsregistry.com,