The Family Tree By Terence L. Day Terence L. Day, genealogist and journalist, is on the Washington State University faculty. I put it a bit differently. No one is truly dead until they're forgotten. The NEH picked Thanksgiving week to launch an Internet family history initiative, a virtual front porch where anyone with access to the World Wide Web can pull up a chair and add their own stories to a national archive. What a great idea.
Genealogy is but the history of common citizens.
People of that ilk. My nose bears the ink stains of many such a history book or biography, but I thirst to know about the lives of much more common folks. It was on the backs of farmers, loggers, auto mechanics and the town druggist that America was built. All of these and many more lived interesting lives as they hewed our heritage. Ferris wants us to share our stories with the nation.