bennison@clt.DEC (Victor Bennison - DTN 381-2156) (01/10/86)
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I read recently that there was a court case involving the Beatrice Bayley
company and that the verdict was against the company. You may recall
that Beatrice Bayley sells computerized telephone book lists for 25 or
30 dollars, insinuating that they are genealogical works. The ruling
stipulated certain things that the company could not claim. As I recall,
words such as "personal heritage" were disallowed in their advertizing.
It's really a pretty good scam. They buy the lists from another company
and just package it with a little general genealogical information and
a coat of arms from some armorial work and send blurbs out to everyone
in the phone book list.
There is at least one other company, Halbert, that does the same thing.
Don't fall for it unless you want a list of all (most?, many?) of the
people in the U.S. with your surname. If your name is Smith you needn't
worry; I'm sure you won't be hearing from them.
Vick Bennison
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