id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ney4zmfg5vdjfm5qjzgiesakgi Milton Rubincam What the Genealogist Expects of an Archival Agency or Historical Society 1949 6 .pdf application/pdf 2691 145 56 The genealogists, on the other hand, often think that archivists and historical society personnel deliberately close their eyes The genealogist has the feeling that an archival agency has thousands of documents that would be of inestimable value in his researches if he but knew what collections the Archival agencies and historical societies can also aid genealogists by appointing certain staff members as genealogical consultants State archival agencies, local historical societies, and county court houses are, therefore, the principal repositories of genealogical source materials. Since the history of a state, as well as of a nation, is based upon the activities of its people, many genealogists believe that each state archivist has an obligation to assemble in one place the records of Maryland, and Virginia, to centralize in their archival agencies documents bearing not only on the history but also on the genealogy ./cache/work_ney4zmfg5vdjfm5qjzgiesakgi.pdf ./txt/work_ney4zmfg5vdjfm5qjzgiesakgi.txt