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The Sunny Side of GenealogyThe Sunny Side of Genealogy. Fonda D. Baselt . (1988), 1999, paper, 102 pp.
In 1999 we first offered Laverne Galeener-Moore's
Collecting Dead Relatives, the first book that
looked on the comic side of genealogy (see
Item
2105).
Now we offer another one, and the two books clearly demonstrate that genealogy is secure enough in its professionalism to laugh at itself. This edition of the Baselt book is the second, and it has an additional sixteen pages of new material. The whole book is a humorous collection of anecdotes, poems, wills, epitaphs, and other miscellany from genealogy. A quote of just one item will convince you that you should have this entertaining work-- "Old genealogists never die/They just lose their census. |