>>> LMCLEMOR <[log in to unmask]> 03/09/06 1:39 PM >>>
[snip] Third, historically there has been an intellectual and social
bias
against "ordinary folk."  [snip] The preservation and documentation of
the lives of common people is a
fairly recent development.  [snip]

This is starting to sound like the discussions we have in the
genealogical community about the prejudice of many historians against
"those genealogists," perhaps because genealogy tends to be more of an
amateur activity, and in times past, many genealogists were only "name
collectors." People give examples of going to a library to do
"historical research" and being welcomed, or going to the same library
to do "genealogical research" and being sneered at. But the fact is, it
takes people to make history; without genealogy, there wouldn't be any
history!

Christine
 



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