52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy
Week 7 – Historical Documents : Which historical document in your possession are you happy to have? How did you acquire this item? What does it reveal about your ancestors? I’m a bit bamboozled by this challenge in that I don’t think I have any historical documents really. Original ones that is....I have lots of copies of historical documents. Perhaps we need to define historical document…I’m assuming we are talking about a primary source. My History teacher in High School Rowena Danziger hammered in the importance of primary sources as opposed to secondary sources. My rather ham-fisted attempt to explain the difference is that a primary source would be one written at the time by someone with first hand knowledge of the event. I guess we’re talking diaries and letters. But wait….I do have some….my mother’s letters. And I am happy to have them. They are a mix of handwritten and typed letters dating back to 1983. She w...