Sounds like our grammar really grates your nerves. What is wrong with you that you have to correct a person because they haven't spent their life in proper English. When I feel critical about people and how they don't do things the perfect way that I do.. LOL I point my finger at myself and say what is wrong with me. I like to spent time on my Wilhite's . I read a story about a Wilhite girl dying and being carried to the cemetery and woke up. (That was a story in the Madison County Homes). She was young when that happened and she lived until she was in her eighties. I like the stories about our family. Does anyone have some good ones they can share? My grandmother Laura Wilhite Drake cooked German food and her sewing was perfect. Her father Jackson Wilhite was a lawyer and farmer and he taught school for the children in the community. My mother father was one of his pupil's. He inspired him to go to law school and he did go. The Wilhite's are on my father's side of the family. My grandparent were born in the late 1800's. My mother is 101 and for those who think senior's mind's are failing .. her mind is clear and she helps me with my genealogy. She remember's all of the old folks from the late 1800's. My mother was 29 when I was born. As, we grow older we tend to be more forgiving and less concerned about things that don't matter. Sometimes, people misjudge us for being absent minded or for having loss of memory. I think it all boils down to finally really being who we are and knowing what life is all about. Merry Christmas to all my German cousin's. Frances In a message dated 12/21/2008 1:47:45 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, GermannaResearch@comcast.net writes: At Friday 19-12-08 05:44 AM, Rick Yeager wrote: *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >Let's not try to be grammar police when we change the meaning of the post >and we seem to have a problem with apostrophe usage. >(snip) **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT*********** I, personally, don't have a problem with anyone wanting others to use proper grammar, punctuation, etc. Words mean things. Punctuation means things. "Apostrophe usage" means things. Proper pronoun usage means things. I'm just sick of the present trend of people saying things like "for him and I", etc. For heaven's sake, when the personal pronoun for "me/I" is preceded by "for", or any other such qualifier, the proper usage is "me", not "I". You don't say "for I" (as in "for him and I"), do you? Or with "I"? (As "with him and I".) Our American English grammar has fallen into the same old pit of ignorance that has been afflicting us for the last 10-15 years or so. (Notice that I say "ignorance", as opposed to "stupidity". Ignorance means "not knowing, unlearned, or uneducated", whereas "stupidity" simply means "not capable of learning".) Not from the List Admin, but just from me, a stickler for proper usage of English. It may not mean anything as far as genealogy research is concerned, but it just grates on my soul to see supposedly educated people butchering our language. If people can't do anything else, they could at least consult an English Grammar booklet and find out when the pronouns "I/Me", "He/Him", "She/Her", "They/Them", etc., should be used. There's no excuse for ignorance. George ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************One site keeps you connected to all your email: AOL Mail, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000025)

*From the sideline: *First, we get a couple of post about singing Christmas carols in German, whether we understand the words or not. Then, we get a lesson in English grammar. Just thinking ....Wonder what our 1700's broken English/German speaking grandparents would have said on this subject? .... Might not want to know ! "We've come a long way, baby" ....or have we ? The Christmas service sounds wonderful ...Wish I could go! To me, Christmas is about Faith, Hope & Love...... I think most folks come to this site because of love of family, regardless of their faults or imperfections (we all have them). Somehow, I think our ancestors did a much better job loving each other than we do today.....Just something I think we can all improve upon at this special time of the year. Merry Christmas to all, PS: Hope you have snow in Va .....Maybe it will filter down to NC. Fred Duncan