Hello, While there are two lists Buckinghamshire and Bucks are the same place. Bucks is the abbreviation used for the county. So for example Berkshire is also known as Berks and Wiltshire as Wilts. There are some anomalies such as Oxfordshire being known as Oxon and Hampshire as Hants. This link should be helpful. http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jimella/counties.htm#abbrev Godfrey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Ashby" <sueashby@earthlink.net> To: <eng-buckinghamshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 5:15 AM Subject: [ENG-Buck] Dumb question? > Hello, > I have a dumb question I know. But, since I don't live in Eng. and > neither have any of my ancestors for at least 300 years, I hope I will > be forgiven for asking.. > What is the difference between the Buckinghamshire list and the Bucks > list? Are these two different places? Should I subscribe to both? > > I am hoping that there are some present day Chitwoods/Chetwode's on the > list. > I know someone, in the US several years ago posted a query about them > and there was no response, so I thought I would try again, in the hopes > with all the interest in genealogy over the last few years, there might > be someone now. > > Thanks, > Sue > > > _____________________________________________ > > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: > ENG-BUCKINGHAMSHIRE-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-BUCKINGHAMSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Oh, thank you so much, Godfrey! This link is wonderful and so enlightening to an 'outlander'...All the abbreviations used were and are confusing to me. Just as some of the odd ball terminology used in the US may be to any of you that do American genealogy. :-) This is a great help! Sue godfrey.camilla wrote: >Hello, > >While there are two lists Buckinghamshire and Bucks are the same place. > >Bucks is the abbreviation used for the county. So for example Berkshire is >also known as Berks and Wiltshire as Wilts. > >There are some anomalies such as Oxfordshire being known as Oxon and >Hampshire as Hants. > >This link should be helpful. > >http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jimella/counties.htm#abbrev > >Godfrey > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Sue Ashby" <sueashby@earthlink.net> >To: <eng-buckinghamshire@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 5:15 AM >Subject: [ENG-Buck] Dumb question? > > > > >>Hello, >>I have a dumb question I know. But, since I don't live in Eng. and >>neither have any of my ancestors for at least 300 years, I hope I will >>be forgiven for asking.. >>What is the difference between the Buckinghamshire list and the Bucks >>list? Are these two different places? Should I subscribe to both? >> >>I am hoping that there are some present day Chitwoods/Chetwode's on the >>list. >>I know someone, in the US several years ago posted a query about them >>and there was no response, so I thought I would try again, in the hopes >>with all the interest in genealogy over the last few years, there might >>be someone now. >> >>Thanks, >>Sue >> >> >>_____________________________________________ >> >>Any problems, please contact the List Admin: >>ENG-BUCKINGHAMSHIRE-admin@rootsweb.com >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>ENG-BUCKINGHAMSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >>without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> > > > _____________________________________________ > >Any problems, please contact the List Admin: ENG-BUCKINGHAMSHIRE-admin@rootsweb.com >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-BUCKINGHAMSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >