H. Daniel Wagner's article "Genealogy As an Academic Discipline" in the Spring 2006 issue of AVOTAYNU, the Jewish Genealogical Journal, reviews current shifts and modern research tools in genealogy, and can be accessed by going to: http://www.avotaynu.com/wagner.htm H. Daniel Wagner is a Genealogist and a Professor of Materials Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. He was a co-chairman of the 24th International Conference of Jewish Genealogy held in 2004 in Jerusalem. He is on the board of directors off Jewish Records Indexing-Poland, coordinator of the Grodzisk Mazowiecki Archive Project, the Zdunska Wola JRI Shtetl CO-OP Coordinator and Town Leader, as well as the chairman of the Organization of Former Residents of Zdunska Wola in Israel. I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting. Regards, Walter Greenspan Great Falls, MT & Jericho, NY