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From: "W. Fred Rump" <>
Subject: Re: Archives for this group
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 03:32:39 GMT


"BEHNEN, BOB" <AD38%> wrote:

>>Sadly we've not yet gotten around to doing everyone's genealogy just
>>yet.
>>
>>The computer is nice but it still takes people to provide data. At
>>some point you may have done the research and have provided your
>>database to the internet. At that time you'll be able to find
>>everything you already know. :-)
>
>Fred, that sounded a bit grumpy. Perhaps the wrong
>side of the bed this morning? ;-)

Not really. That's why I had the smiley back there. I'm not the grumpy
type. Tongue in cheek is more like it.

>Unfortunately, most of us are so busy trying to track
>down our own roots that the time we spend volunteering
>and helping others leaves little time for our own
>research or for creating a searchable archive. Fred
>has helped hundreds, perhaps even thousands with their
>genealogical research. Often, though, people write
>expecting to find everything already done. A
>searchable archive would be very useful to see if
>others were working in the same area or on the same
>family. I am sure it will be available some day.

I guess what I was reacting to is the everpresent expectation that the
computer or the internet 'knows' everything. The new user somehow
expects to be able to simply download their family history from out
there somewhere. I tried to explain that this kind of expectation is
not part of the real world we all live in. The sooner a newbee finds
that out the better. There is work to be done and the computer and the
internet can help but I have yet to find somebody who had to do no
work on their own to write their family history.

>In the meantime, Michael Salzmann, the listserv
>administrator at the University of Karlsruhe has a
>portion of the archive available by the internet.
>Try http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~listserv/archive/gen-de-l.html

That's not what was asked for and in any case it gives a 404 error as
a protected or non-existent file.

Fred
W. Fred Rump (preferred)
Beverly, NJ
609-386-6846
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