A Relic of the Past?

Yours truly at the Courthouse Centennial Cemetery Tour, September 16, 2017. Photograph by Susan Tangeman

It is Labor Day. Yours truly has been working very laborious this year learning new technology. Not an easy task, but I am getting there. I have that slow learner disorder with new devices.

This year I have had an unusual amount of research request. The inquirers all seem to share a familiar trait. By the time I respond, I receive a reply back, that they found everything on the internet. Truth be known, in a lot of those cases, the documents that I have in those particular files are not available on the internet. An example is correspondence with their long lost relatives. That is their loss, not mine. While there is a wealth information to be found online (some of which is questionable) and there is a wealth of material that is not. I will continue to do the hard work of hands on the ground, examining original documents versus questionable online sources, so I guess that makes me a relic of the past.

In the meantime, enjoy this special holiday. I am going to toil away for a part of the day working on the 2025 Calendars.

Tim

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