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From: "Mills" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Opinions?
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 12:00:04 -0600


Jeri Steele wrote:
<Elizabeth, for your 'future' trends: I deal with engineering, computer,
and manufacturing professionals in several other countries . . . >

Thanks, Jeri!

<Jan DeLucien's comment "We're talking about taking a folk art and growing
it into a science." really hit home for me. Software engineering had to
grow from 'folk art' into an engineering discipline and they had to do it in
a hurry. . . For genealogists this [mean] every piece of the 'source' code
[the source documents], the User requirements, Design & Testing [Analysis
documents and proofs] must be frozen some where with a time/date stamp.
This allows any 'version' of the software [In genealogy the resulting charts
& reports] to be examined and rebuilt.>

Jeri, this is the best analogy I've seen for why genealogical evidence must
be properly documented and properly analyzed. It stands a far better chance
of "making sense" to most gen newcomers today than any of the hi-falutin'
talk about scholarship that we usually make <g>.

Elizabet

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