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Newspaper Obituary Policies
I have been researching a long time and one of the things that has me really concerned is the policy that many newspapers have taken with online Obituaries.
Instead of printing a full complete obituary, many papers have taken to writing just a small brief announcement and then telling the reader to “subscribe” to the paper in order to see the full result.
To these papers, I say, “Fat Chance.”
Writing “Roots”
In 1976, a couple years after I got started in Genealogy, Alex Haley wrote a book called “Roots.” Soon this book was turned into the first Mini-Series on television. For a week in 1977, millions of viewers glued themselves to their televisions and a bowl of popcorn and watched this slave saga unfold from the jungles of Africa to the plantations of Virginia.
It was a smash hit! It spawned a sequel, it made Alex Haley famous overnight!
And it was all based on a flawed Genealogy, poor research techniques and plagiarism.
It was fiction.
