They are using the Alinsky "ridicule " to achieve that end.
Let us imagine that a team is assembled to enquire into the life and times and relationships of a man. Well, a team was assembled to enquire into every aspect of the life of Howard Hughes Jr. He of Hollywood and Spruce Goose fame. It was the Dinkins Associates who were paid two million dollars. The book on it is "Heir Not Apparent" by Suzanne Finstad.
Now if a professional genealogist was employed to determine the birth of Barack Obama and was offered a 100,000 dollars..... I submit if he came up with the COLB and a few newspaper entries, with a few hazy memories, he would not even get paid.
You should see what the criteria is for joining the DAR or Mayflower families. And you're right, it's easier to be elected President!