Archivists, at least those servicing research rooms, spend a considerable portion of their careers working with genealogical researchers. Often archivists complaint about being inundated with genealogists when they hope to work with serious scholars, whining that often ignores the importance genealogy provides in our society as a legitimate pastime and quest for personal meaning and identity. Eric Enrenreich, in his The Nazi Ancestral Proof: Genealogy, Racial Science, and the Final Solution (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007), provides a glimpse into this relationship between archivist and genealogy, although his focus is not on this relationship but on an explanation for why the German public seemed to accept the Nazi cause for the eradication of what was perceived to be an inferior portion of the population, when there was a legitimate reason for complaint.
Read more from Richard J. Cox at
http://readingarchives.blogspot.com/2007/11/bad-genealogy.html
Read more from Richard J. Cox at
http://readingarchives.blogspot.com/2007/11/bad-genealogy.html
KlausGraf - am Freitag, 16. November 2007, 14:58 - Rubrik: English Corner
