Dear Ira, I think you are wrong here; she actually emigrated to the USA! Please consider the same context with the different words: import and export vs immigrate and emigrate, which in fact mean the same but are used with goods other than people. One uses import to imply that goods enter ones (from the writer's point of view) country, and thus are exported from (left another) country. Thus: 'im' implies entering and 'ex' implies leaving (a place or country - again - from subjects point of view) Alfred ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ira J Lund" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 9:06 AM Subject: Re: [CFTW] emigrate/immigrate > >If you write that Frida Rage emigrated from Norway using the > >Emigration Archive for Stavanger Norway as the source - you have > >omitted the most important place information in that archive. That is > >the place she went TO - USA. > > I might have used the Emigration Archive, but she still "immigrated" to the > USA. She did not "emigrate" to the USA. I use the Emigration Archive as the > source of my Immigration event. > > Ira > ------------------------------------------------ > Mr. Ira J. Lund > E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.cf-software.com > > Cumberland Family Software, 385 Idaho Springs Road, Clarksville TN 37043 > > > ==== CFT-WIN Mailing List ==== > You can contact the List Manager at: > [email protected] > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > >