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From: Carolyn Earle Billingsley <>
Subject: [APG] NGSQ Editorial-request for copy
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 15:25:41 -0500


I'm hoping someone on this list will be willing to help me. This summer, I
transported myself and all my files to my condo in Houston so I could
finish a book for the University of Georgia Press. This book is based on my
Ph.D. dissertation at Rice and argues that historians have ignored
genealogical methodology, which is the key to kinship studies, and that
kinship should be added to race, class, and gender as a category of
historical analysis. I use a Family Tree Maker database of over 7,000
individuals connected to the Keesee family for my evidence, demonstrating
what all genealogists already know---that kinship played a key role in
antebellum Southerners's lives in the areas of settlement, migration
patterns, religion, politics, and economics.

When I came to Houston, I grabbed my latest NGSQ (June 2002) to read in my
spare time. This week, I was able to sit down and peruse it and discovered
several Feedback letters referring to the Editor's Corner "Academic
Discrimination" (March 2002). This editorial sounds like it would be a good
source to add to my comments about historians and genealogy in the book,
but I don't have a copy of this issue with me here in Houston.

Could some generous person out there fax me the relevant page along with a
citation? I'd really appreciate it. Please send me an e-mail so I'll be
expecting your fax and I'll notify the list when I receive a copy to
prevent duplication. Thanks, Carolyn

Carolyn Earle Billingsley, Ph.D.
2475 Underwood #171
Houston, TX 77030-3524
Telephone and Fax: 713.664.1443

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