Re: [PAF] Need Help with Sources.

[Richard L Halliday <rlhgen@juno.com>]

On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 00:17:20 -0700 "Thomas B. Lerman"
<Thomas_Lerman@yahoo.com> writes:
> Richard,
> 
> Thank you very much for your document that you sent. I think I will
have to
> read it a couple of times before I understand it all. I am also
planning on
> going to a class at the FHL next month. It sure sounds like your family
> history is MUCH easier than mine since I am the first in my family to
join
> the Church and most of my ancesters came from old "iron curtain"
countries.

Thomas;

   You may be correct.  All of my ancestors in the 1850s joined The
Church of Jesus Christs of Latter-day Saints in England, Wales, and
Scotland.  Shortly after their arrival in Utah, they began to do Temple
Ordinances for their ancestors.  Since then about one person in each
generation has taken up the work.

   In addition, the company I worked for sent me to England for almost
three years.  There I was close enough to my mother's families origins
that I was able to do research in their counties of origin.  It was a
WONDERFUL experience.  I found hundreds of new family members and was
able (led) to find many errors which I was able to correct.  I do not
know why I have this inclination.  Most of my family is actively
disinterested in it.  To me it is a great adventure and I look forward to
meeting those people.

   My wife is a convert.  She had been a member of the LDS Church for
nine months when I met her in Jacksonville, Florida.  She has had very
good results in her research.  She even found a book that carried some of
her lines back to the 1600s.  And all of that still in the US.

   I do not envy you the "opportunity" to do research in the old Eastern
European/ Iron Curtain countries.  I have tried to help a few people with
those problems.  
 
> I am not sure what question you are referring to that you suggested I
maybe
> rephrase, sorry

   At first I assumed that your question referred to the system that I
use to file my genealogical research material (i.e., Correspondence,
Research Notebooks, Historical Material, and Documentation (copies)). 
When I reread your message as I was sending my reply, I began to suspect
that you were referring to how I "file" the source citations Titles --
the list of Titles that PAF makes.

>My sinuses are a bit infected and I do not remember (maybe
> why I may need to read the document more than once).
> 
> Thank you again,
> Thomas
> 
> PS Go Cougs!!!

   The above implies BYU and LDS.  If so, then I suggest that you look up
what Joseph Smith said about genealogy shortly after the dedication of
the Nauvoo Temple.  Orrin Porter Rockwell recorded that he said something
like "We do not understand how important this work is to those people. 
When they meet with us in the resurrection, they will fall at our feet,
embrace our knees, bathe our feet in their tears, and exhibit the most
exquisite gratitude."  May your greatest "family reunion" be ever so much
greater than mine.  



Richard L. Halliday

                    rlhgen@juno.com

Memory is less a record of things as they were than as we would have
liked them to have been.  Genealogists Beware!
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