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From: "mavrogeorge" <>
Subject: RE: {not a subscriber} Re: [APG] Data CDs
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 14:59:30 -0800


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Myra V Gormley [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, December 05, 1999 1:56 PM
> To: Mills;
> Subject: {not a subscriber} Re: [APG] Data CDs
>
> I don't think the
> producers/publishers will listen
> because it is their advertising departments who
> write the promo material and
> they only care about being "legally" accurate.

Yikes.. I can tell you from firsthand experience that
marketing departments pay very close attention to
reviews and any/all "seals of approval". If the
approving organization makes very sure that its
approvals are well publicized and the organization
itself works at promoting its standards, then the
vendors most definitely will pay attention.

> We also run the risk
> of further alienating the
> many new hobbyists who resent the attitudes of
> some "elitists" trying to
> tell them how to do their genealogy *sigh.*

The devil is in the details. I don't resent the
elitists at Consumer Reports - because they don't
tell me buy/don't buy. They simply give me information
about the product and the criteria they used. They
let the consumer decide which one meets the need.

> Instead of focusing on the negatives out there,
> why don't we emphasize the
> joy and fun of genealogical education and its
> ability to enable us to
> untangle our own roots and branches? We should
> have 10,000 at each national
> conference instead of 2,000. Obviously, we are
> doing something wrong.

Now that is a good thread for discussion as well.
I'm going to cut and paste it in a new message so
it doesn't get lost.

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