Note: The Rootsweb Mailing Lists will be shut down on April 6, 2023. (More info)
RootsWeb.com Mailing Lists
Total: 1/1
    1. [G] Limitations of GOOGLE ALERTS
    2. S TANNER via
    3. 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

    03/29/2016 09:10:49