How Important are Public Records?

A conversation with a relative (especially one from the older generations) is a situation which we always win. Not because we were born afterwards and have access to all of the new technology.

Respectively, each generation “generates” its own thing. Usually, something new or different. This is natural, but not necessarily useful. For you see, our best learning sources is the past. That is to say, past history.

Someone sits down and writes their version of past history. Is that a true version of what actually happened? I would say “no”, simply…

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