What is genealogy? It's finding great-great grandpa, John Smith, who was born in 1850 in Sumner County, TN and died in 1925 in Sumner County, TN. Is it more than that? If some 30 year old brownstone dweller in New York is researching and finds that this John Smith was his great-great grandpa and he/she has the dates, then that person might want to know what life was like back then in Sumner County. If somebody who is 90 years old from Sumner County writes a story on the list about the peddler coming through the community or their brother knocking over the outhouse, then that 30 year old in New York gets some idea what happened in the everyday life of great-great grandpa, John Smith. I found a diary on another site that was written by a housewife in the late 1800's. In her diary, she wrote about the weather that day, a quilt she was making, setting eggs under a hen, food she cooked, people she visited and visited her, neighbors who died. Through her everyday routines that she wrote about, I get to breathe life into my ancestors during that period who would have been living the same routine. Some people who DO genealogy might want nothing more than a name with a date-of-birth and a date-of-death; but for us who ENJOY genealogy, we want to know what life was like for that name between his/her date-of-birth and date-of-death. So, in short, if you people who "do" genealogy would patiently indulge us who "enjoy" genealogy, you also might learn to "enjoy" the genealogy that you are "doing". Thanks