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From: Al Martinez <>
Subject: Just the Facts!!
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 22:48:18 -0800 (PST)


Dear Charles,

This is great, that someone should stand on the soap box and say what
they will. But, to do so and strip their email address is kinda like
striking out at us from under cover. Anyway, my reply was that histroy
has ALWAYS been incorrect. Look around you, what do you think you
see??? If you think you were told the truth up till we got online, you
were well sheltered!!! HISTORY means HIS-STORY! As told by certain
Historians for the benefit and welfare of the same peoples. Not just
here in America, but threw-out the world has history was changed to
suite the conquer. Anyway, if you'd like a rebuttal it's your soap
box...
NEXT..
++++++++++++++++

---Gail Howard <> wrote:

> ATTACHMENT part TEXT message/rfc822
>
> Charles Herbert Crookston wrote:
> >
> > Thank you very much Rudecinda,
> >
> > It has been my experience that too many a person now engaged in
the pursuit of
> > genealogy, rarely, if ever, does much primary source research.
They keep repeating
> > the information they have found in secondary, primarily library
sources, and now the
> > InterNet sources, which in turn have been taken from secondary
sources. As you have
> > indicated, about three evolutions of these notations from three
separate secondary
> > sources about any particular event seems to indicate proof of fact
to many researches.
> > Never mind that the original quotation may have been an inaccurate
interpretation in
> > the first place, of the first source.
> >
> > Events happen, births, marriages, deaths, wars, floods, fires,
famine, etc. These
> > events are the warp and woof a narrative we call call history.
Historians
> > interpreting what happened at the time it happened is not
necessarily truth of the
> > fact of what happened..
> >
> > The primary danger as I see it, with the InterNet, is the rapidity
with which this
> > information gets disseminated, without anyone calling it to
question. Not only do we
> > now have a "Super Highway of Information," we also have a
"Superhighway of
> > Mis-information,"
> >
> > Charles
>
> Dear Charles,
>
> "As a "newbie" to the NORCAL list but a genealogy researcher for
over 35
> years I have come to realize that names, dates and places are fine and
> documentation is wonderful when it is available. However, most of us
are
> doing genealogy on line because the documentation is NOT available
or we
> cannot get to it for some reason and we are trying to piece together
> clues that will lead us to those very facts you speak of in your post.
> In the stories and asides on the NORCAL list I find different points
of
> view and ways to think of things that I had not thought of myself. It
> sends me in directions of research I never would have gone on my own
and
> I have found things faster (or perhaps I never would have found them
at
> all) this way. The condensed folk-history at this site is incredible
and
> the willingness of all to share so unselfishly is what keeps the flow
> going here. I am on other lists and some are in danger of dying
because
> no one is willing to post. I am sure part of that is a fear they may
not
> do a post correctly or it may not be important enough. That does not
> happen on NORCAL. That one little word (may I use the word"fact"?)
could
> make the connection for someone although it may be a terrible bore to
> you. I use the delete key often but not until I've read every morsel
put
> before me."
>
> I am sorry this reply did not go to the list so now I post it with
even
> more conviction. I am insulted to think that you assume I would not
> check original sources or document and verify results. There are a
> number of people in this world who think they are the only ones
capable
> of proper research and because they do not have control over method or
> the research itself it is not valid. There are also people in this
world
> who won't care about documentation. They have always been there and
> always will be. I do not choose to try to convert them nor create
> restrictions that slow the flow of knowledge, be it accurate or not.
It
> has always been the rule in genealogy to verify on your own if you
find
> data provided by someone else. As far as I'm concerned nothing has
> changed.
>
> Now let's be done with this and get back to history and genealogy!
>
> Gail
> (having done research at:
> NEHGS, Maine Historical Society, Boston Public Library, Massachusetts
> Archives, National Archives, Harvard, Bates, University of Maine at
> Orono, Peabody-Essex Institute(Philips Memorial Library), countless
town
> libraries, vital records offices, probate offices,and deed offices.
> Current member of Maine Historical Society, past member of NEHGS and
> Connecticut Society of Genealogists but, Lord forgive me, I don't
have a
> degree in it!
>
>

==

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