Genealogy from a distance: the media of correspondence and the mormon church, 1910-45 *

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• who: Adam Hjorthén from the Stockholm University have published the research work: Genealogy from a distance: the media of correspondence and the Mormon church, 1910-45 *, in the Journal: (JOURNAL) of 19/03/1976
• what: The article shows that letter-writing was a research method dependent on record accessibility and interpersonal reliability. François Weil's assertation that Mormon genealogical history should be separated from ‘mainstream American genealogy' since it ‘did not take part in the marketplace orientation' of U.S. genealogy can thus only be sustained if the analysis focuses on the agency . . .
  

   

  

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