Re: Major new online resource: "Medieval Lands"

In a message dated 6/11/2006 5:10:02 PM Pacific Standard Time,

ely it has been mainly a clearing house for individual research into
gateway ancestries, that may be creditable and indeed valuable but not at
all the field of work that Cawley has chosen for himself.

You're the second person who has brought this charge in the last month and I
really don't see it. The majority of the posts over the last few weeks have
been about people who are several centuries earlier than any gateway person.

Peter Stewart...

It's not a "charge" but just a comment, and "lately" doesn't mean just "over
the past few weeks".

Most of the interest generated in SGM from the start has been over descents
from medieval ancestors to present-day researchers, not purely over the
relationships between medieval individuals. I doubt that many people would
participate in a thread about the paternity of a medival abbess, for
instance, although she & her connections may have been far more important
than the posterity of some dim squireen and the transmission of his estate,
the kind of discussion that in aggregate wins the most sustained attention
here.

The thread that has gained the most enthusiastic adherents over the past
week or so has been a claim of personal Christhood.

Peter Stewart