[Genealib] Two articles on genealogy you may not have seen.

[steven perkins]

Professor Nathaniel Lane Taylor has written a multi-part article on
John Farmer and his genealogy that is being published in the New
England Historical and Genealogical Register starting with vol 160,
(October 2006), p 261 "Genealogist John Farmer discovers his ancestry"
and continued in all four issues of vol161.  I will alert him to this
article from Francois Weil.

Regards,

Steven C. Perkins


On 9/5/07, Grundset, Eric <egrundset at dar.org> wrote:
>
>
> Everyone,
>
> There have been two articles on genealogy in scholarly journals recently
> that may not have crossed everyone's desks. I thought some of you might be
> interested knowing about in them.
>
> Elizabeth Yakel and Deborah A. Torres. "Genealogists as a 'Community of
> Records'." The American Archivist, 70:1 (Spring/Summer 2007), 93-113.
>
> The first author gave a version of this article as a paper at the 2006
> Organization of American Historians conference here in Washington. It was an
> interesting paper and now an interesting article. Ms. Yakel is a librarian
> or archivist in Michigan, and she and her co-author give a very interesting
> perspective on genealogical developments in the US in the late 20th century.
> You will surely recognize many points as you read.
>
> Francois Weil. "John Farmer and the Making of American Genealogy." The New
> England Quarterly, 80:3 (September 2007), 408-443.
>
> The article is about early American genealogy and a prominent early American
> genealogist. It is by an author in France who is writing a book about "the
> history of genealogy in American culture", and yet he does not thank a
> single genealogist, American or otherwise, in his opening footnote -- only
> historians or librarians in historical society libraries. One wonders if he
> has even spoken to many American genealogists or genealogical librarians for
> his research (Only one person I know has spoken to him briefly). The article
> is, however, very interesting, and worth reading. The book probably will be
> too, but I can't help having the same feeling that I had when someone who
> never worked at DAR wanted to write a book years ago about doing
> genealogical research in our collections. The "inside-the-profession" or
> "inside-the-building" viewpoint may be lacking. Stay tuned I guess.
>
> Eric G. Grundset
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