Linda, your points are well-taken.  Your elevated cousin with the PhD in
History would be chagrined to learn that it was not until 1969 that the AHA
finally recognized
genealogy as a legitimate arm of history.  And, why, pray tell me, are we
constantly
having to re-write history?
I have known of a genie to crawl thru a chicken house in order to find that
scrap, or
perhaps 'primary' source, and the smug historian with the doctorate would
deny its existence because he could not find it in the Collis P Huntington
Library.
I would go a step further, that there are likely a helleva lot more
genealogists who
know what a primary source is than PhDs in history...
Perhaps this type of historian should seek employment at the LDS site; there
is
plenty to publish there--and obviously they thirst for primary source
sources...
Cheers!  Erik P Conard, genealogist and PhD (History!)--Denver

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