[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Retlaw - you are cruel.

What criteria does qualify one as an historian?

It used to take 7 years apprenticeship to qualify as a tradesman.
I've spent more than 7 times that researching into the history of Accrington, and its people, spending a lot of time in Libraries and Public Record Offices.
I've got nearly 100,000 names of births marriges and deaths, plus census records, in this computer, going back to around 1100 AD, that does not including all the local men who served in WW1, which is close on 15000 individuals, all slowly typed in, from my original card index's, not scanned in or photocopied.
I think I qualify as a local historian just a bit more than some one who has a couple of trade directories.
I've also been criticised many times, for doing what I do, but its never bothered me.

Retlaw.