I guess a few hardy "real" genealogists will still be pawing through old records, and arguing about whether an ancestor born 800 years ago was born on a Tuesday or early Wednesday. Genealogist are a hardy breed. I expect they will reinvent a role for themselves doing something. *************** The answer depends on what you want to know. The Mormons call Genealogy Family History--and with good reason. Ancestors should be more than names and dates on a GEDCOM. They lived in a time and place that no longer exists. As the saying goes, the past is a foreign country. The only road way to get there is through historical research. For several years now, I have been doing more historical research than conventional or genetic genealogy and as a result am developing a keen sense of John Britton bc 1672 and the late 17th century Virginia society in which he lived. Primary sources as well as scholarly publications play a necessary role in that research. Life isn't long enough to become acquainted with the many different worlds in which our ancestors lived. Lindsey