http://www.ogs.on.ca/ogsblog/?p=1341 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:14:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.ogs.on.ca/ogsblog/?p=1341&cpage=1#comment-39195 Pat Jeffs Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:30:02 +0000 http://www.ogs.on.ca/ogsblog/?p=1341#comment-39195 You’ve enlightened me.
In thirty years of family history work I had never figured out what “fonds” were. I could only relate it to its Latin root and knew it meant something about “depth”. So to me fonds have always meant records that are down in the depth of some official archive–items that would take so long to come up to the desk that I wouldn’t have time to look at them at that visit.
If your family history research has been hampered by family commitments and distance from archives, you will understand why I have always run away from “fonds”.
The sooner more material beyond BMDs and censuses get on the net, the better.

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