On 2013/06/14 16:22, Jenny De Angelis wrote: > I have just followed the link you posted but it doesn't seem to mention the > piece about the language that you noted in your message. > > All that I got on my screen was the search page for Settlers in Barbados and > on the right hand side of the page a menu of items to choose from. No > mention of the language of the records at all. > > Did you choose one of those items from the right hand menu before you got > up the message about the English language, or something. Maybe I am missing > something? I think Lawrence was trying to be facetious about the page. Under the title (English Settlers in Barbados, 1637-1800), there's a message in a box with a yellow background. And it reads precisely as Lawrence said. Wasn't it GBS who said that the Americans and British were one people separated by a common language? Ancestry have just proved his point. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg

Curiouser and Curiouser! I too, like Jenny, get no yellow box or additional writing. It does appear to be geographical. Jacqui Freke Oxfordshire Eudora_email_footer_should_ be_ here http://www.tvadblocker.co.uk Jacqui Freke 01865 731124 or 07929 055978

On 2013/06/14 17:13, Jacqui Freke wrote: > I too, like Jenny, get no yellow box or additional writing. It does > appear to be geographical. If I was allowed, I'd post a screen-shot to prove it :-) To make matters worse, it's ancestry.co.UK not ancestry.com. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg