A Hand-Book of Practical Suggestions: For the Use of Students in Genealogy (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Stiles, Henry R.

9781331994220: A Hand-Book of Practical Suggestions: For the Use of Students in Genealogy (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 1331994225 ISBN 13: 9781331994220

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2019

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Excerpt from A Hand-Book of Practical Suggestions: For the Use of Students in Genealogy

If, to the craft, it may, perchance, appear to be too pedantically precise in its treatment of the subject, let them remember that it was written for beginners.

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Excerpt from A Hand-Book of Practical Suggestions: For the Use of Students in Genealogy

I suppose that if I Argued for 1,000 years with a New Englander about that ancestral pride stuff we would end up still thinking each others point of view was queer. And probably both of us would be right.

I asked a confirmed New Englander just why so much more importance was placed by her on one's ancestry than on his own personal achievements. Her reply was ready:

"Doesn't it stand to reason," she asked, "that if one comes into the world with an inheritance of good qualities he has a better chance of success than if he comes from poor family stock?"

"But," I replied, "you are not fair. If a man, despite his endowment of brains and his advantages of cultural environment, turns out to be a no-account, a heel or a criminal, you overlook all of his shortcomings by saying, 'Yes, but he comes from an excellent family'. And if a boy who comes from scrubby people and is given no training or other aid whatever but, despite those handicaps, becomes a credit to society you discount all his achievements by the belittling observation, 'Yes, but look at what an awful family background he has'."

She considered my remarks to be without point.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.