paul@phs.UUCP (03/21/84)
<> I believe my query came up once before in net.roots, long ago; forgive me if this is so. I just received in the mail a post card from "Beatrice Bayley, Inc." of Sterling PA, quoted as follows with my synopses and comments in square brackets: On April 11, I am going to publish THE DOLBER FAMILY HERITAGE BOOK.... Thousands of dollars and months of work went into researching through 70 million families. From this I have located almost every Dolber member in the United States. My findings show the Dolber name is very rare. Only about one citizen for every quarter million Americans belongs to the Dolber family. [I'm surprised there's that many...]... The DOLBER HERITAGE BOOK is a leather textured library edition... [The cost is $29.85 + $3.00 nonrefundable postage and handling; the $29.85 can be refunded if the book is returned within 10 days]... THE UNIQUE DOLBER FAMILY BOOK CONTAINS! * A directory of almost every DOLBER Family [culled from phone books?] * The history of our origins in the U.S. ["our"? Whose?] * The development of family crests [again, whose?] * The origin of family names [again, whose?] * Areas to add descriptions of DOLBER Family members and existing DOLBER Family trees [you mean blank pages?] Has anyone ordered one of these books (no, not a Dolber Heritage Book, a Your-Name-Goes-Here Heritage Book), or has anyone seen one? Are they worth anything, let alone $29.85? Regards, and thanks, Paul Dolber @ Duke U Med Ctr (...duke!phs!paul).