tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post6471349782428092884..comments2024-03-21T07:58:02.168-05:00Comments on Amateur Mormon Historian: Local history research is meeting peopleBrucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01543519825711760773noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post-84935749712259629082009-09-25T13:13:21.685-05:002009-09-25T13:13:21.685-05:00Yes, in that case he should have "shut up&quo...Yes, in that case he should have "shut up" and listened. It is human nature to want to be heard and not so much to hear. <br /><br /><i>"Let anyone with ears to hear, listen"</i>Brucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01543519825711760773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645379631135547997.post-52022705640300326352009-09-25T10:44:33.199-05:002009-09-25T10:44:33.199-05:00Other than picking the brains of a few aunts for f...Other than picking the brains of a few aunts for family history, I've never tried to gather history from living sources. If I'm ever in a situation to do this, I'll try to remember your advice.<br /><br />Come to think of it, I was recently in a discussion that supports your advice with a negative example. I'd run across a written account involving a ward member's father, and the next Sunday I asked the ward member about it. I was really trying to find out whether he had this particular source (if not, I'd have given it to him), but he was so busy telling me that yes, he knew the story, that I never could find out whether he had this specific source that might have added a detail or two.Ardis Parshallhttp://www.keepapitchinin.orgnoreply@blogger.com