Fantasy Tree is haunting the real research in the Charles Fallin's Tree
About ten years ago I posted in the Community about my problem with a Fiction author who was using an incredibly well research tree to support his Fantasy Novels. Charles Fallin PID M8R8-713 and his wife Jane PID L7ZL-TY5 are the first families of Northumberland County Virginia. His family and the Northumberland Historical community have beaten the bushes for every hint of additional records, because the birth of their son was one of the first church records in this Virginia County.. DNA shows Charles was Irish. We even know the county in Ireland. However, every few months I have to remove members of the "Clement Falling Leaf Wolf Clan Aldredge GHL9-SWR" into the family of Charles Fallin Leaf and his descendants. If any original sources are cited, they are from South Dakota, 200 years after Charles Family is living in Virginia.
This group of individuals (are there really that many contributors or are they using false names?), keep adding Chief Falling Tree into the family. They ignore the documents and explanations and post memories that say such things as "this marriage is recorded at the Library of Congress." or "Abundant sources support the surname for Jane as Eyes," although repeated statements to the contrary are in the Family Tree.
In the notes is the following:
Any connection to Indians is FAKE. See https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Shawnee_Heritage_Fraud. I have been removing this lie for at least 5 years. Don Greene wrote a fantasy fiction and then tried to use the Fallin documents to say it was real. He started with a pedigree in MyHeritage and then used that for "documentation." Every few month this Fake shows up trying to use the carefully documented Fallin Family. Oh, and now there are a bunch of these fakes on Ancestry.com. For a full expose see FAKE INDIANS: http://ancestorstealing.blogspot.com/2017/03/shawnee-heritage-by-don-greene-aka.html.
I updated that posted that 5 years ago. Yet, Charles Falling Leaf appeared in the tree again this week. Please FamilySearch, address this joke. Make the tree something that reputable genealogist can trust.
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I definitely think this would be worth trying Report Abuse against - the bar for it is very high, but I recall reading that one of the few occasions on which it had actually worked related to people from fiction being added to the Tree. If you've already tried Report Abuse against this problem, it would be good for future reference to know what your experience was. Thanks.
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@M G Thomsen this issue has been reported.
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