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    1. [HWE] Corrections re: Threadneedle info
    2. Andrea Vogel
    3. Fellow listers -- this is an oops! type of post. That is, I want to correct a couple of errors I've made in the two previous posts on the Threadneedle tésmoignages today and yesterday (28 & 29 Jan). First, in my earlier post today, I mentioned Lausanne and then put the country abbreviation CHI, which is, of course, for the Channel Islands. I should have typed CH which is Switzerland. Second, in my post yesterday, I stated that Switzerland had the greatest number of refugees arriving at Threadneedle with tésmoignages (1577 people). This was not correct -- the number should have been only 157 people. This confusion happened because I misinterpreted my hand-written notes, which were done some months ago, when I still had the tésmoignages film at my local FHC. . So it should be the city of Geneva (not Switzerland) which was referred to as having "ease of access from so many parts of France". As you may recall, Geneva was listed as being the place of origin of 84 refugees and all others were "from places in French-speaking Switzerland". As you may also recall, Geneva was the city where John Calvin lived for many years, teaching and writing about the Reformed Church. Finally, then, it should be the Netherlands (Holland and the Low Countries) where most of the Threadneedle refugees originated from (1502 people). Hope this sets everything straight. Andrea

    01/29/2001 04:02:02