A PUBLIC APPEAL TO WALT BROWN: Release Jay Harrison's Archive

[Tom Bowden]

Thanks for that. It sounds logical until one realizes that Joan Mellen was quite able to find very important new information within what was there. She repeated this to me on several occasions, at several points in her work with these files/materials. Yes, she also said they were not easy to use. It seems counter-intuitive to use a genealogy system - but this can not be changed. I'm aware of many side stories and side aspects of J's research which I have been asked not to be made public - so I can not. But from what I know and what Joan reported [and others I can't name] there still resides much important information - even if in a very difficult format.

I am not suggesting that there is not some good information in his system. It is just not that easy to get out. I suspect Joan was able to get information more easily because we prepared some notebooks particular to Wallace and Jay had a copy of them. I sincerely doubt she found new information but that is a discussion between Joan and I.