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From: "Derick S. Hartshorn" <>
Subject: Re: Genealogy Newsletter Question
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 09:31:44 -0400


At 09:50 PM 10/24/97 EDT, you wrote:
>As you all know by now, I publish the Evans Events newsletter. Although the
>Evans name is originally Welsh, many African American people have adopted it
>as their own. I would like my newsletter to represent ALL Evans families
>
>My question for you is this: How do you handle the question of race in a
>genealogy newsletter? Do you think it would help to include the race of the
>family since it could help people distinguish whether or not they were related
>to that particular family? Or do you think that would get too complicated
>since not all members in a particular family are necessarily of one particular
>race. Do you think it would get too political and offend people of one race
>or another?

I always wondered what happened after "Everything Evans" went away. I can see
your point on wanting to be all-inclusive. I have a special place in my
heart for
those trying to do African-American genealogy and try to assist them as much
as possible. I would suggest a different font, maybe italics, for those of the
black Evans'. One think I think a lot of folks dislike is reading through a
query
or article, looking for leads and then finding it isn't of their race. I
don't think
anyone would find this offensive.

--Derick S. Hartshorn

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