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SPLIT IN OWNERSHIP Burke's Peerage and Gentry The ownership of Burke's Peerage Ltd, the original publisher of ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage'', changed hands a number of times until the company fell into receivership in the 1970s. Ownership of the publication rights to ''Burke's Peerage'' passed through several hands in the succeeding years. The 1970 edition was reprinted in 1980 but without further revision. In 1989 the rights were acquired by Morris Genealogical Books, who brought out a thoroughly revised 106th edition in 1999. In 2002 the rights to ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage'' were purchased by the company that owned the rights to ''Burke's Landed Gentry''. The company was renamed Burke's Peerage and Gentry and a fully updated 107th edition was published in 2004 under the editorship of Charles Mosley.[http://www.baronage.co.uk/2006a/Burkereview.pdf Burke's Peerage Partnership Burke's Peerage Partnership was formed in the 1970s by a group of investors who were interested in the commercial potential of the ''Burke's'' name. The partnership owns the ''Burke's'' name and their lesser titles but never owned the publishing rights to ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage''. From 1984 until his death in 2005, the publishing director of Burke's Peerage Partnership was Harold Brooks-Baker . The partnership has published a number of genealogical titles and conducts other genealogy-related business under the ''Burke's'' name. In the 1990s Burke's Peerage Partnership licensed the name to '''Halbert's Family Heritage''', an American publisher that sold genealogical books under the name ''Burke's Peerage World Book of {surname}''. The books claimed to be a comprehesive history of a given Surname but consisted largely of computer-generated lists of names and addresses drawn from telephone records, and were marketed through direct mail. Burke's Peerage Partnership currently offers services including genealogical research, custom designed Heraldry , and assisting clients to acquire Scottish and French noble titles for fees ranging from £30,000 to £100,000. SEE ALSO REFERENCES |
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