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From: "Barrie J Wright" <>
Subject: Re: More on Collateral Descent
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 21:18:38 +1030


Well said, Renia,

The US passion to "improve" on the Europeans and British in particular has
long been noted by unrevolutionary Australians like me.

The USA has contributed to changing English in many positive and
negative ways. But the idealistic attempts to reform English spelling
rather fell in a big heap, crashed and burned, didn't it?

Barrie J. Wright
in Adelaide, South Australia


----- Original Message -----
From: Renia Simmonds <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, 16 March 2000 11:30
Subject: Re: More on Collateral Descent


> "In Search of Ancestry" by Gerald Hamilton-Edwards, a foremost British
> genealogist, was published in1983.
>
> Sir Anthony Wagner, KCVO, was Garter Principal King of Arms in the 1960s.
>
> I suppose (she said, sarcastically), that now we have (just about) entered
> the new millennium, that we must totally ignore the top genealogists of
the
> past, as they are old-hat, old-fashioned, and irrelevant. And British. Is
> that it?
>
> These are the people who did the original research in dusty libraries,
> record offices, and had to beg vicars to let them see the parish
registers,
> in the days before such records were deposited, for our convenience, in
> public archives, and in the days before much was indexed. No faxes. No
> telexes. No computers. Just hard slog, and thousands of cards in card
> indexes. The groundwork, which we, today, feed on, and call our own
> research. These people were REAL genealogists.
>
> Renia
>
> Vickie Elam White wrote:
>
> > Rafal Prinke wrote --
> >
> > > That's true. I have just checked two genealogy books in English which
> > > I think can be treated as representative of the field and found
> > > the controversial phrase used by their distinguished authors.
> >
> > Well then, I suppose I must bow to the authorities; however,
> > you forgot to include dates of publication for those works, so
> > I don't know how recent they are. Perhaps the controversial
> > phrase was once used but is not now in use?
> >
> > Vickie Elam White
> >
>
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