--part1_0.515b5033.25467309_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is so true. Donna --part1_0.515b5033.25467309_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-za04.mx.aol.com (rly-za04.mail.aol.com [172.31.36.100]) by air-za02.mail.aol.com (v62.10) with ESMTP; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 15:38:01 -0400 Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by rly-za04.mx.aol.com (v62.10) with ESMTP; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 15:37:42 2000 Received: (from [email protected]) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA28725; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 12:36:16 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 12:36:16 -0700 (PDT) From: "Dave Schubert" <[email protected]> Old-To: [email protected] Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 15:36:15 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Reply-to: [email protected] Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Message-Id: <[email protected]> Subject: [MDFREDER-L] (Fwd) Top 5 Reasons Your Ancestor Name Is Spelled Wrong Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/4248 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Subject: Top 5 Reasons Your Ancestor Name Is Spelled Wrong TOP 5 REASONS YOUR ANCESTORS NAME IS SPELLED WRONG SOMEWHERE Let's talk about the spelling of our ancestors names... Seems some people have different spellings for old names. I've been through this over the years and learned basically this. #5 - There were no computers is the 1400's, 1500's, 1600's, 1700's, 1800's, and the 1900's until the 1960's. And there were no personal computers until the late 1970's. #4 - Everyone makes mistakes, especially the average typist. #4A - There were dyslexic people before the 1990's. #4B - US Census takers are paid less than minimum wages. #3 - Handwriting/penmanship/cursive varies between persons, languages, mood swings, full moon, etc. It always has, and it always will. #2 - The most slaughtered letters in lower case handwriting are: .. o looks like a .. a looks like o .. a looks like u .. u looks like a .. b written instead of d .. d written instead of b. #1 - In European languages like German & Spanish, vowels have a dot, dots, or dash (umlats for example) above the basic letters and are rarely translated to English. ESPECIALLY on the Internet at American web sites. Feel free to spread this message far and wide. ____________________________________________________________________ Download NET DETECTIVE 2000 at http://www.usgenealogy.com/netdet2k/ ------- End of forwarded message ------- ==== MDFREDER Mailing List ==== OLD FREDERICK COUNTY, MD WEB PAGE http://members.aol.com/midmdroots/frederick/index.htm Court Records, Cemetery Inscriptions, Lookups and Queries! --part1_0.515b5033.25467309_boundary--