"Steve Hayes" <hayesmstw@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:p06nm3li7biip2r313b1ogtt0ldt6p6k3q@4ax.com... > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:01:42 +1030, Anne Chambers <anne@privacy.net> > wrote: > >>To be pedantic...that should probably be 'an Italian *with* Albanian >>ancestry' or 'an Italian *of* Albanian descent' :) > > Or Albanian-Italian, like Albanian-American or African-American. That means a person is of every nation one of his ancestors was born in. Present day people would have hundreds of names. Joe - he's a American-Irish-German-Spanish-Portuguese, etc. for a hundred or so nations.