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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