The American Geneologist
When researching for this website many geneological sources have been used. The American Geneoligist is a source that is
quoted by many other sources, these include those made by sites such as Wikitree and, of course, Ancestry.com. Douglas Richardson
is a big contributor to ancestry.com and is probably in their employ.
While Douglas Richardson's works are useful I question whether they are totally indepedent. I have a similar view of records
found by making Wikipedia searches. I think that it is best to take the orgin of these sources in mind when drawing conclusions.
Douglas is quoted as an authorative source by many and having done so any further "digging" seems to be unnecessary. I am finding
more and more that his underlying sources need to be followed.
The American Genealogist is an independent quarterly journal dedicated to the elevation of genealogical scholarship
through carefully documented analyses of genealogical problems and through short compiled genealogies. For almost one hundred years,
The American Genealogist, affectionately known as TAG, has been America’s premier independent genealogical journal.
Now in its centennial year, TAG was founded in 1922 by Donald Lines Jacobus (1887–1970), the father of scholarly genealogy
in the United States, and the first person elected to the National Genealogical Society’s National Genealogy Hall of Fame.
TAG was Jacobus’s vehicle for elevating genealogical scholarship to the same high standards as other scholarly disciplines,
and it was at the center of what is now known as the “Jacobus School,”
a group of professional and amateur genealogists who were dedicated to these standards.
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