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Subject:	Re: oral history
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Date:	Sat, 4 Oct 2008 06:05:23 EDT
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Not first person accounts, no.
 
My experience has been that much of so called "oral history" is nothing  more 
than puffery or outright fiction in an attempt to enhance an otherwise  
mundane family background.
 
J South



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