Webmaster Notes
Here we have a possible connection to Douglas Richardson and ancestry.com. While there is no direct connection the fact that ancestry.com seems to be the "go-to" place for aging geneologists to go when their "adopted" platforms seem
to be faltering. Either that or there is an economic reason - ie they are getting paid for their contributions.
While there is nothing wrong with seeking a revenue stream I am not personally interested in making money from this website. I am not in the business of selling books or the promotion of geneological websites such as ancestry.com. I realise that this is big business these days and there are many that are willing to pay to either find out if they are related to royalty or just to trace their family background.
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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