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From: Carolyn Ybarra <>
Subject: Re: [APG] genealogy definitions
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:32:10 -0800
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I should have looked in the dictionary! I guess my only exposure to
the word "forensic" was vis a vis mystery novels and forensic
anthropology. (So I thought, erroneously, that it was a word having to
do with science, bodies and skeletons.)

I didn't know it had to do with legal issues and the courts. This may
be partly due to my intense aversion to anything related to courts,
judges, and lawyers. (I once lived in a house with law students, and
when I complained of the bad smell coming from something stored in the
laundry room, two of them came to me and argued that they could not
smell it, ergo the smell did not exist.)

Carolyn

Carolyn Ybarra, Ph.D
Family Research Services
1017 El Camino Real #332
Redwood City, CA 94063

On Jan 6, 2008, at 11:24 AM, wrote:

> From: Mary Douglass <>
> Subject: Re: [APG] APG Digest, Vol 3, Issue 8
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> From my old college dictionary, Forensic adj; of characteristic of, or
> suitable for a law court or public debate. Therefore a forensic
> genealogist would be one who worked with, for, or in a law court,
> possibly presenting evidence.

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