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From: Ray Beere Johnson II <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Genealogy Definitions
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 20:33:28 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <5e931bb30801062026o1eb220cajae094d19b2de32a4@mail.gmail.com>


--- Drew Smith <> wrote:
> It
> is standard (and reasonable) practice for
> genealogists to be the ones
> to create the definitions used by the
> profession of genealogical
> research.

Ah, but that is *not* what this thread is
about. These are terms, supposedly, to be used by
the public, to help them understand what each
specialty means. Go ahead and define the terms
you use in your work - I have no problem with
that.
Grabbing terms and defining them to control
the public perception qualifies as "use" only in
the sense that the recent drift of the APG has
been: we're having trouble making decent incomes
(due to historical processes we should all
understand, but apparently don't) so why don't we
manipulate public perception, that is, *use* the
public's ignorance against them, in order to
squeeze more bucks out of them.

Ray Beere Johnson II



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