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From: David Hawgood <>
Subject: re: Birth Briefs - a dilemma
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 06:36:08 -0400


Chris Newall asks whether he should submit his adoptive or natural birth
brief to the Society.

Definitely submit both - with adoption clearly marked - the Librarian can
decide on the filing with either birth briefs or family collections, but
either way the information is in the Library and preserved for posterity. I
consider that both should be filed with birth briefs.

Personally I consider that members should be encouraged to submit known
information when they join or soon after. The hardest part of genealogy now
is discovering family within the past 100 years, so it is valuable to have
members' ancestry back to grandparents on record in the library to help
other members and researchers.

That reminds me - I haven't submitted my own birth brief because my Bowker
and Almond cotton mill workers in Blackburn are "too hard" but I live in
hope of finding them. I'd better submit it anyway.

regards,
David Hawgood.

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