lostcooper@yahoo.com wrote:
Let us please not get into book burning! Even the bad ones are history
of a sort. Future genealogists, sociologists & politicians will
certainly want to see what some people wanted to believe. What if
displeased true believers had burned the records you depend on now?
BA: *Fahrenheit 451* is alive and well on gen-medieval?
Bill
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BA: I forgot to tell a story :0 This one is true: trust me on this, journalist
to readers. In the 1960s I visited a cousin who was a lady in her 80s and
I was still in my 20s. She gave me some personal documents which her
grandfather had written about *his* grandfather. A few years ago, after
reading some of my comments on a Yahoo family-genealogy message
board about this event, a lady from the south wanted me to share what
I had received *in toto* almost demanding I hand over the genealogy
history I possessed. She claimed to be more of a *direct* descendant
of this lineage than I. Her angst came from the fact that when the lady
in her 80s died her children burned all her personal papers because
they had no use for it, and besides, according to this lady from the
south, her children did not believe *family skeletons* should be taken
out of closets and paraded before the world. Needless to say, I have
*published* online at message boards and will also publish in print
in my books my findings. And my genealogy collection is scheduled
for a genealogy society library, so have no fear I will burn it :0
Bill
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