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From: Tim Powys-Lybbe <>
Subject: Re: Traced to the 1500's in England. Now what?
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 21:04:44 +0100


In message <>
(John Lerwill) wrote:

> At 21:03 30/4/99 GMT, (Reedpcgen) wrote:
>
> >Actually, it's easier doing researcher during that period here at the FHL in
> >Salt Lake City than any other single repository. But there are original
> >records which we do not have yet, so it is necessary to check at Kew and
> other
> >places for specific items (Anthony Camp comes here on vacation to do
> research).
> >
> >
>
> With the greatest of respect, that although the FHL may have huge
> resources, does it have (for example) copies of hundreds of individual
> family histories as filed in the Society of Genealogists?

Surely these family histories in the SOG are just as suspect as those in
the FHL (without wishing to do any injustice to any family historian not
least of which is my own brother who did deposit his thoroughly
researched results in the SOG)?

I respect these various family histories but would always reckon that
they need confirmation from solid sources. They represent very useful
starting points for further research, though with the better documented
I am less inclined to re-invent the wheel.

> .........or filmed
> copies of army records, shipping manifests....etc. etc.? Apart from which,
> isn't it best to seek primary sources rather than secondary - which, surely
> must be the case at FHL in many cases?
>
> Surely "....But there are original records which we do not have yet..." is
> an understatement - or am I wrong in my thinking?
>
> jal
>

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