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From: Windwalker <>
Subject: [COUCH] Very helpful info/list
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 10:16:12 +0000

A very helpful list for indepth research
and a clip from site.. A good list to sub to.

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/

Clip:


AMERICAN CROSSROADS CONCEPTS

There are eight geographically and historically defined
Crossroads, and within each of those are clumpings of migration,
settlement, and kinship within "Perimeters." In each instance, "some
stayed and some rode on. " I have found that the people of the
"Backcountry," were continually on the unfolding American frontier as it
pushed westward over the past two hundred years. Often we find that we
can learn much about our own lineages by examining the others, whether
ours were the ones who stayed or whether they rode on.
The Backcountry or Frontier People are difficult to identify
properly, and technological innovation and even the work of some
historians have often intensified the difficulty rather than helping solve
the problems of researching this peripatetic core of pioneers. Genealogy
software and internet search engines, with their reliance on standarized
definition and labelling of names and localities, coupled with usage by
multiplying novice users have all but decimated the patient, scholarly
pursuit of these venerable Fathers and Mothers that characterized research
a mere 30-something years ago when I first began researching my families.
The result is that these many thousands of technology-reliant "newbie"
researchers not only are frustrated in their quests, but are blocking the
research arteries for traditional searchers who would like to see improved
technology better used. But let us begin! We can either light a candle
or curse the darkness! (Most often I do both!)

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