Category: Media Research Bureau, Washington, DC, Fraud

Categories: Frauds and Fabrications

Media Research Bureau, Washington, D.C., was a company which sold many fabricated "family name" and "coat of arms" reports. Due to fraudulent activities the company was forced out of business by the United States Postal Service with the assistance of American Society of Genealogists (ASG). See the ASG website for more information.

World Cat lists about 200 "books" with this organization as an author: http://www.worldcat.org/search?qau%3AMedia+Research+Bureau, but many of the materials cited in family histories with attribution to Media Research Bureau are not found on this list.

This category is a location to identify the profiles of people whose biographies and family histories (on WikiTree or elsewhere) have been affected (or in some cases may have been affected) by Media Research Bureau fabrications. "Affected" is the operative word -- listing in this category does NOT mean that the profile itself is fraudulent; hopefully it is listed because the fabrication has been identified and corrected.

Benedict Family Written History Document

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Thomas Benedict bef 30 Nov 1617 Long Stratton, Norfolk, England - abt Mar 1690

William Benedict abt 1579 Saxlingham Nethergate, Norfolk, England - 02 Feb 1629

John Bowen 1696 Chester, Pennsylvania - abt 09 May 1761

Mary (Bridgham) Benedict bef 15 Nov 1618 Morningthorpe, Norfolk, England - abt 1719

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Arthur Connelly 15 Sep 1812 Boon Co., KY - 18 Jul 1884

D

Aegidius de Mandeville Jun 1626 Doesburg, Gelderland, Netherlands - 15 May 1701

John Dobbs 1575 London, England - 21 Nov 1620

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Sarah Freeman 27 Apr 1584 - 04 Jan 1664

G

Thomas Gridley 10 Apr 1612 Essex, England - 12 Jun 1655

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Ebenezer Hancock 15 Nov 1741 Braintree, Norfolk, Province of Massachusetts Bay - 12 Mar 1819

Leonard Higdon 10 Mar 1795 Burke County, North Carolina, USA - abt 1890

Jonathan Hill 1779 Bristol, Bristol, Rhode Island - 1860

Anna (Hoffman) Dettro 30 Jan 1755 Heiliges Römisches Reich - aft 1810

J

Robert (Justice) le Justice abt 1210 Checkenden, Oxfordshire, England

K

David Knox abt 1747 Allentown, Merrimac, New Hampshire - 09 May 1830

L

Elizabeth (Lee) Watkins abt 1545 Myddle, Shropshire, England - abt 1578

M

Hendrick Mandeville 1646 Voorthuizen, Gelderland, Netherlands - 08 Dec 1712

R

John Rush 22 May 1620 Hornton, Oxfordshire, England - 09 May 1699

S

John Seely 25 Aug 1693 Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut - 19 Mar 1756

T

William Talley 1663 New Kent Co., Virginia Colony - 07 Feb 1710

W

Francis Watkins abt 1540 - abt 1571

Henry Watkins abt 1638 England - abt 1713

Henry Watkins abt 1600 England - aft 1625

James Watkins abt 1565 Wales - abt 1623

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