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From: "Richard A. Pence" <>
Subject: [GM] Re: Popular Genealogy Magazines in the States?
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 15:25:08 -0700
References: <200304010210.h312AZI25079@askin-17.linkpendium.com> <b6d626$ua2$1@askin-17.linkpendium.com>


"John Kantzer" <> wrote:

> The best and largest one that I know of is Everton's
> Genealogical Helper.


As previously noted, The Genealogical Helper no longer exists.

The one - and largely only - thing it was "the best" at was that it
carried a large number of genealogical queries (enough so it could
also be considered "the largest").

The reason it no longer exists is easy to figure out: The one thing
The Genealogical Helper did very well is to help you make contacts
with like-minded researchers. It was, as they say, the only game in
town.

That job is now done much faster, much more effectively and
efficiently and at much less cost by the Internet.

In short, it has been replaced by soc.genealogy.*!

I sometimes wonder if those who claim The Genealogical Helper was
the "best" ever stopped to read any of the articles. If they had,
they would have surely noticed that they were quite rudimentary and
largely just routine "how-to" fodder used to take up the space
between the advertisements (albeit ads that one was quite willing to
pay for!).

Regards,
Richard A. Pence, Fairfax, VA 22030
Pence Family History <http://www.pipeline.com/~richardpence/>;

"Richard A. Pence" <>

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