In a message dated 1/9/2003 8:44:35 AM Central Standard Time, Maramun@aol.com writes: > Looks like Finnish to me. I know a Finnish-born woman and will run it by > her > at the next opportunity. > This message was on the GERMANS-WI message board and was deleted because it had nothing to do with GERMANS in WISCONSIN. Please also keep in mind that a Message board post that is gatewayed to the list needs to be replied to on the board. Most board users are not list subscribers and will never see a reply to their post otherwise. Or you can use the address of that person which is in the message gateway and e-mail them privately. A reminder: We all generally just "reply" to whatever message is on the screen, since that is how we normally communicate on this List. However, it's important to realize that SOME of the messages are "gatewayed" to us from the corresponding surname Message Board. We receive the benefit of seeing messages posted about this surname, without needing to visit the web page. Some -- perhaps many -- of those who post messages there are NOT subscribers to this List. What we need to remember, then, is that if we want to be certain our message reaches the original poster, we must click on the link provided in the message that comes to the List. That will take us to the Message Board where the original message resides. At that point, we will be able to "reply" to the message, so that it "threads" itself into that series, and also it will be gatewayed to the List, thus coming back to us here. Always digging for my roots, Kathie Harrison - List & Board Admin. GERMANS-WI ------- Lancaster Co. Coordinator, NEGenWeb Project http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~irishrose/lancindex.html