Bill Bowe Notes Joe Hart’s Exceptional Contribution to Hart and Canavan Family History
Editor’s Note: As our conversation drew to a close, I wanted to put on the record my thanks to Joe, and the growing respect I have had for his work ever since we first exchanged communications a decade ago, when he was poking around in the Canavan part of the massive family tree he has built. The proof is in the pudding: a highly professional database that will be of use and interest not just to this generation, but that I expect will persist in a way that is genuinely unusual. Joe, for his part, says the pleasure was his and hopes we can talk often about developments in the future.
Transcript
Speakers: WJB — William J. Bowe; JH — Joseph Hart. Transcribed from the recording; punctuation added and obvious mis-hearings corrected.
WJB: Joe, I want to thank you again for taking this time out, because I have been very much, for a long time — ever since we first had some communications a decade ago now about the Canavan research, when you were poking around in that part of the massive tree that you have built — I’ve had a growing respect for the extraordinary effort that you have made, and the proof is in the pudding, which in this case is a highly professional database that is going to be of utility and interest, not just to this generation, but I’m sure that’s going to be persisting in a way that will remain unusual. So with that, I want to thank you again for taking the time out and talking about this.
JH: Well, it’s my pleasure. I hope we can talk often into the future and talk more about developments. So —
