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From: Norma Bruce <>
Subject: Using a mis-post
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 08:41:57


On June 16 a member of this listserv reposted something forwarded to her
about locating parents through deed records. Because it was a repost, it
included information about books for sale, apparently a no-no on this
listserv (and on many others as well as some usenet bulletin boards).

However, I saved it both for the helpful information about deeds, something
I haven't learned to do yet, and because as a librarian, I would never
discard bookseller information without looking at it. I'm in a specialized
field and use as many as 40 vendors--snakes don't get the same diseases as
dogs, and as they used to say back when veterinary medicine was making the
shift away from horses, "a dog is not a small horse." With tongue in cheek
we say, a physician is a veterinarian who treats only one species.

Bookfinder and ABE are nice sites IF you know what you are looking for or
what resources are out there. In genealogy I'm lower than a novice. In
library science I know that a list of books whether references at the end
of a chapter or in a dealer's catalog, is a gold mine. So I went into that
bookseller's site and printed out the books for sale for Tennessee, Ohio
and Pennsylvania, and now when I look at our statewide catalog (OhioLINK)
or the international source OCLC, or the Ohio Historical Society catalog, I
know what to ask for. Even after changing my options to tiny print, I
printed out 4 pages for Ohio, 8 pages for PA, and 3 pages for TN. Not
every title will be useful, but it certainly gives me a head start over
where I was in familiarity with the literature. Also, when I compute how
much it would cost me to drive to Adams Co. PA or Jefferson Co. TN plus the
use of my vacation time, the prices on a book list start to look absolutely
reasonable.

That mis-post was a tremendous help to this novice, and I hope the poster
will be forgiven and reinstated.

Norma J. Bruce

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