FAMILYSEARCH.ORG is the online LDS site. The only thing you won't get there
is the nice little old ladies who have bent over backwards to help me do the
beginning research for my families histories.
The LDS isn't perfect, but they have done a pretty neat job of recording a
lot of data vs. the rest of us who have not appreciated the value of family
histories to aid our history research.
If you can give them a little financial support, donations, and if you have
done ACCURATE family history research let them add it to their files.
JP Adams
Texas
-----Original Message-----
From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Barry McMullan
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 6:15 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Is Genealogy Dead?
All,
Try The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, most of their Wards
have Genealogy Libraries and they have the Family History Library in Salt
Lake City, Utah.
Barry
--- On Wed, 11/17/10, Huffstutler, Eric S. <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> From: Huffstutler, Eric S. <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Is Genealogy Dead?
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Wednesday, November 17, 2010, 1:11 PM
> Unlike 10-15 years ago, people of
> research age today have zero interest
> in things "old" and those of us who have spent years
> researching our
> families often find no one in the family interested in
> taking on the
> task or even having copies of our work... sigh. Take
> the DENIO family
> forum... one post all year long and only a handful the past
> 10 years. I
> know there are others out there but the name is dying out
> and so is
> their interest.
>
> What about us who can't afford to take road trips or hire
> researchers?
> The lack of volunteers making themselves available on
> Rootsweb, RAOGK,
> etc... The apparently mostly dead surname forums (you can
> post a
> question and wait years for an answer - if ever), and
> expensive
> clearinghouses of information, makes it basically
> impossible for many of
> us to progress in our research especially those who rely
> solely on
> Internet communication.
>
> Right now the only Virginia surnames I am working on are
> PEERY and
> MUNCY... of Wythe, Tazewell, and Giles counties. Anyone out
> there?
>
> Eric Huffstutler
>
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