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From: "Chad R. Milliner" <>
Subject: Amen, Mic
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:37:33 -0700


I completely agree with Mic Barnette's list of questions to ask people
considering a career as a professional genealogist. My analogy is "the
shoemaker's children going barefoot" -- I do research full time for my
clients, and so I work on my own genealogy only a few times a year --
generally when I am travelling to a genealogy conference and happen to have
ancestors who resided near where the conference is being held.

However, there are many "pluses" to doing research professionally. First,
you REALLY learn about history and how it all fits together. Second, you
learn interesting bits of trivia that you would never bother to figure out
on your own. For example, I learned how thousand island salad dressing got
its name. Third, by its nature, genealogical research is never the same
thing twice. You are always doing new things, and using new record sources.

Chad R. Milliner, MLIS, AG

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