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From: "Roger Camp" <>
Subject: RE: [DK] Professional researchers
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 08:39:45 -0700
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20020901083347.00846d90@earthlink.net>


When we were at the family history center in Salt Lake City I got terrific
help from the Scandinavian counter. The most helpful was a lady called
Anka. She was great.

Arlene From Arizona

-----Original Message-----
From: Rockne Johnson [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 8:34 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [DK] Professional researchers


Hi Paula,

I don't mean to discourage you. It is always good to have a collaborator,
even if you have to hire one. When I was new to genealogy and researching
ancestors in County Durham, England, I was greatly aided by working with a
local genealogist. (The language barrier was no problem; he actually spoke
excellent English!) When I began Danish genealogy, I would have gotten
nowhere without the help of the volunteers at the Scandinavian counter in
the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. A couple of years later,
when I had searched the churchbooks back to the beginning of time, I hired
a couple of genealogists to check my work. The American-born one, who
lived in Salt Lake City, did a reasonably thorough job but found no
mistakes. He was conscience-struck and returned 40% of what I had paid
him. The Denmark-born one, who lived in St. George, Utah, was practically
useless (although a fine fellow). He kept the money.

Rock

At 07:59 AM 9/1/02 -0700, Paula Goodfellow wrote:
>Well, I spent last night wading through a bunch of stuff that a distant
>cousin in Utah (maybe everyone of Danish descent has a cousin in Utah and a
>cousin in Wisconsin) sent me, and comparing it to Ancestral File. I have no
>research of my own on that line, so I was just looking at it in
anticipation
>of getting the original parish records to try to check them myself. There
>are a lot of obvious mistakes in Ancestral File. The stuff that my relative
>sent me was much better for at least being plausible, but names had all
been
>anglicized, and all the "datters" had been changed to "sens". I was able to
>check a lot of that with the census online, and found that it looks pretty
>well-done despite the changes in names. She said that a lot of it had been
>done by a man who worked for the FHL in Salt Lake in the 60's and 70's.
>
>Your response sums up why I'm cautious about using a researcher-- I went
to
>hear a woman speak here in California about Danish research, who runs her
>own business and has a lot of publications about Danish research, and I was
>very unimpressed. She didn't seem to have a great command of Danish-- and
>she said that the internet wasn't of much help for Danish research!
>
>But I'm getting back far enough that I am going to be running out of parish
>records. There's one line that I think could be extended through some of
the
>tax records, maybe, but I don't think I could do it, and I'd also like to
>have someone look over what I've done for errors. And there's still that
one
>line where I'm stuck, not able to find an ancestor born only in 1803--but
>I'm still working on that. Thanks, Paula


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