It tells me that all the technology companies scream about is rubbish most of the time. I'm just a grumpy old fool. On 29 March 2016 at 15:10, S TANNER via <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On a cold wet Easter Monday in Wales, I'm always pleased to get a new GOOGLE ALERT for one of my surnames of interest in my inbox - especially if it refers to a part of the world that I hadn't found people previously. > > For example, I wasn't aware of any HEMPSALLs or HEMPSHALLs in Tennessee. Could this one be a hitherto undiscovered , long lost colony of Hempshall hill-billies, spending their days listening to country music with their Dolly-Parton-lookalike wives? > > But my hopes were dashed when the detail was revealed: > > WCYB "Tennessee lawmaker says growing hemp will get easier " > > The ever-helpful GOOGLE had clearly "intelligently" thought that "will" was equivalent to "SHALL" - so this was an example of HEMPSHALL > > Sadly, the southern Appalachia remains a HEMPSHALL-free zone. > > Steve Tanner > > HEMPS(h)ALL ONS > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- One-name Study of KAIN and variants. GOONS member 5992