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From: "LaWanna L. Blount, Ph.D" <>
Subject: [APG] Re: APG-D Digest V04 #6
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 02:27:44 +0100
References: <200401081406.i08E6wZq022317@lists2.rootsweb.com>


Could someone tell me the complete citation of Elizabeth's article in the NGSQ?
Thanks,
LaWanna L. Blount, Ph.D.
Career and Educational Services



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> APG-D Digest Volume 04 : Issue 6
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> Today's Topics:
> #1 [APG] Elizabeth's article in NGSQ [Rebecca Rector <>]
> #2 Re: [APG] Elizabeth's article in N ["Chad Milliner" <]
> #3 [APG] Elizabeth's article in NGSQ ["Alvie L. Davidson" <floridasearch]
> #4 [APG] list admin help needed ["Debbie Spencer" <]
> #5 [APG] NBC News Story on 7 Jsan 200 ["Alvie L. Davidson" <floridasearch]
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> Subject: [APG] Elizabeth's article in NGSQ
> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 08:25:45 -0500
> From: Rebecca Rector <>
> To:
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> >I started to read Elizabeth's article in NGSQ: "Genealogy in the
> >"Information Age": History's New Frontier?"
>
> I very much enjoyed Elizabeth's article. It summed up where the
> profession has been and hopefully where it's going. I never knew the depths
> to which others so negatively regarded us genealogists! It would be great
> if a similar article could be done, geared toward educating the general
> public about the different "levels" of genealogists, from "genies" to
> Professionals and academics. I'm not sure what the appropriate publications
> would be -- New York Times? <g>
>
> Rebecca Rector, MLS
> RbInfo Genealogy Research
> Shrewsbury, MA
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> Subject: Re: [APG] Elizabeth's article in NGSQ
> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 07:18:53 -0700
> From: "Chad Milliner" <>
> To:
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> Respected general-interst publications like the Atlantic Monthly and New
> Yorker do sometimes carry long-form articles about genealogical topics -- at
> least they have done so in the past.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rebecca Rector" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 6:25 AM
> Subject: [APG] Elizabeth's article in NGSQ
>
> >
> > >I started to read Elizabeth's article in NGSQ: "Genealogy in the
> > >"Information Age": History's New Frontier?"
> >
> > I very much enjoyed Elizabeth's article. It summed up where the
> > profession has been and hopefully where it's going. I never knew the
> depths
> > to which others so negatively regarded us genealogists! It would be great
> > if a similar article could be done, geared toward educating the general
> > public about the different "levels" of genealogists, from "genies" to
> > Professionals and academics. I'm not sure what the appropriate
> publications
> > would be -- New York Times? <g>
> >
> > Rebecca Rector, MLS
> > RbInfo Genealogy Research
> > Shrewsbury, MA
> >
> >
> > ==== APG Mailing List ====
> > The Association of Professional Genealogists
> > http://www.apgen.org/publications/apg-l/index.html
> >
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> Subject: [APG] Elizabeth's article in NGSQ
> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 09:23:10 -0500
> From: "Alvie L. Davidson" <>
> To:
>
> Good Morning Rebecca
> I am in total agreement with your thoughts on this article. I can only
> envision that we will not have troubles with do-gooders who wish to begin
> processes today of closing or limiting access to genealogical records which
> will cause those in the next generation to be elimiated from finding needed
> documents.
> We know that genealogical research can be starved by the limitation of
> records.
> I just hope no one gets all hairbrained and begins to destroy records just
> to prevent access.
>
> Alvie L. Davidson CGRS
> CGRS, Certified Genealogical Record Specialist, is a service mark
> of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license
> by Board-certified associates after periodic competency evaluations.
>
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> Subject: [APG] list admin help needed
> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 15:55:33 -0500
> From: "Debbie Spencer" <>
> To:
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> Hi there! I think that I'm subscribed to this wonderful list twice! I get 2 of the same emails each day.
>
> Any chance we can get that fixed?
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> Thanks SO much! Deborah Spencer
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> Subject: [APG] NBC News Story on 7 Jsan 2004
> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 07:26:05 -0500
> From: "Alvie L. Davidson" <>
> To:
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> I don't know how many folks saw one of the leading news stories on NBC evening 7 Jan 2004 about identity theft.
> They focused on a group of folks in Atlanta who were scanning newspaper
> obituaries and following up by getting data off the internet concerning the
> deceased person and then buying from information brokers personal data to buy cars obtain loans in the name of the deceased person. This seems to be going on before anyone has time to fully know the deceased person is actually dead.
> The GA State Law Enforcement arrested a large group of people in GA and others were arrested in other states.
> Is this going to make newspapers stop putting obituaries in their paper? When do you think the public will no longer be allowed to own a telephone book because it has names and home addresses of lots of people.
> I know the databases which I have access to in my business will not arbitrarily sell data to anyone who comes along because we view anyone who is not licensed by Florida as an investigator or who might be practicing lawyer not to be entitled and cannot get the information.
> I guess you can put all sorts of rules out there to go by and folks will still side step these rules and do whatever they wish.
> By Don Teague
> Correspondent
> NBC News
> Updated: 6:41 p.m. ET Jan. 07, 2004
> This is the story correspondent on NBC.COM
>
> Alvie L. Davidson CGRS
> CGRS, Certified Genealogical Record Specialist, is a service mark
> of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license
> by Board-certified associates after periodic competency evaluations.



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