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From: "Tony Fuller" <>
Subject: Re: [Huguenot] No apology necessary, Tony
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 17:03:28 -0000
References: <20050101162237.96072.qmail@web81303.mail.yahoo.com>


Hi Judy

Thank you for your tolerance and understanding - what I said was not meant
as a personal slight to you but rather a comment on what is seen as a
particular approach to doing research in the USA, which is nothing to do
with subjective or objective interpretations of facts but with means
justifying the ends - hence the 'getting too USA' - that is not widely
understood elsewhere in the world and which Peter Leroy and I have discussed
on many occasions in private messages. Goodness knows how long just doing
the sums on the dates must have taken you, it just struck me as far too
complex a piece of work for the result which could be a 'maybe'. And that
is nothing to do with it being subjective or objective, accurate
translations or anything else, just the work involved and for what purpose?

But, following on from Edward's message, I am happy to explain my comment
about 'getting too USA'. I am well aware that The Hug Soc of America is
well respected in the USA but it is not as well respected outside the
country where it is often regarded as both elitist and sectarian. The fact
that it is so prescriptive about membership causes some people outside the
USA concern (which I readily accept may or may not be appropriate, well
placed or even any of their business) and whilst I readily accept that the
Society has every right to set its own rules, in the UK we frequently get
enquiries from people who are so anxious to prove their lineage, they go to
lengths that we, outside the USA, find - frankly - to be bizarre and all for
the sake of membership of a genealogical society.

Although I am not in the US, I think that I have tried to prove that as far
as research is concerned, I don't care where people are and am not
proscriptive about how researchers use this forum, for example I regard
Huguenots as Huguenots, without any artificial boundaries on where research
should begin or end. And, believe it or not, I only work for American
clients because of their approach to business for reasons that those that I
work for already know.

Regards

Tony
A contrite List Daddy



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