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From: Jeanette Daniels <>
Subject: [APG] Fw: Jones APGQ article
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:46:17 -0800 (PST)


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From: Jeanette Daniels <>
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Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 10:39:55 PM
Subject: Re: [APG] Jones APGQ article


Brenda,

I have no idea. I have had it since the first Monday in January.

Jeanette


----- Original Message ----
From: Brenda Holloman <>
To: Jeanette Daniels <>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 5:46:26 PM
Subject: Re: [APG] Jones APGQ article


Dear Jeanette,

Thank you for your interesting response regarding Tom's article.
May I as how you received the "December magazine much earlier" than it
appears others of us did?

Thank you,
Brennie Holloman


> [Original Message]
> From: Jeanette Daniels <>
> To: <>; <>
> Date: 1/20/2008 7:31:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [APG] Jones APGQ article
>
> To Harold and Other Members of APG:
>
> I got my December magazine much earlier and emailed privately to Tom
Jones what I thought of his article. I appreciate the article and am glad
that it was printed in the APGQ. The organization does need to make
changes. As everyone knows, each time change has been brought up, there
has been great controversy on the list. I also realize that more is needed
than raising dues and creating a "new set of standards" that only a few
will feel good about. I believe that this approach would offend many
currently in the APG organization.
>
> Although many on this list oppose genealogical education as necessary for
professionalism, I really think that it is the basis for any profession. I
also realize because of the past attacks upon me for suggesting this (along
with several others who have tried in various ways to stress education)
that this list is not going to agree on any type of standards. I don't
mean a "quick" degree in genealogy based upon "life experience." That's
the problem. Too many on this list are realizing the need for more of a
credential than a CG or AG but are not willing to take the time to really
earn it, learn more, etc.
>
> I don't understand why this article was banned and am glad that Melinde
brought the problem to everyone's attention. I would like to see more
Opinion Piece articles in the APGQ expressing how effective changes could
be made to improve the organization. That way we can all read and
understand and think about what has been written.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Jeanette Daniels
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "" <>
> To:
> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 9:06:18 PM
> Subject: [APG] Jones APGQ article
>
> Today's snail mail at last brought the December APG Quarterly including
Thomas
> Jones's much-agonized-over viewpoint article "Are We Professionals?"
>
> I don't have a substantive opinion about his conclusions, but I sure do
have a
> procedural one about how the article itself was handled. I am
flabbergasted and
> slack-jawed that the APG's governing body thought the article too
"derogatory"
> (the adjective used by outgoing president Sharon Tate Moody Dec. 11 on
this
> list) to appear in the magazine -- until public controversy caused the
decision
> to be reversed.
>
> Thank heavens for the public controversy!
>
> IMHO, an opinion piece should present enough solid facts for a reader to
figure
> out on her own whether the author's conclusion really follows. Jones
meets this
> standard and then some: his article is measured, well contextualized
(with the
> analogy to adolescence), written on an impersonal level, and lacking in
> inflamed rhetoric. It deserved better treatment -- and certainly a better
> adjective! -- than it got. I hope that future leaders of this
organization will
> not need any prodding to realize that a well-informed membership trumps
the
> superficial comfort of keeping difficult issues confined to internal
> discussion.
>
> If it makes us uncomfortable to learn that it costs more to join the
> Association of Professional Piercers than the APG, or that the
Association of
> Professional Band Instrument Repair Technicians has more membership
categories,
> well, tough. Those are facts. We can draw a lot of different conclusions
from
> them (not necessarily the ones the author did) -- but not if the article
> presenting those facts is kept from us.
>
> Harold
> -- Harold Henderson
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