At 05:21 AM 9/26/00 -0400, Roy Stockdill wrote: >Cyndi Howells wrote..... > > >>How about a list of ethnic and locality specific resources?<< > >PARDON a cynical old Brit butting in, but my immediate reaction on reading >the start of Cyndi'a message was to wonder what she meant by "locality >specific resources". It's not a very user-friendly phrase, is it? Then >looking at the list of websites, I realised she meant sources relating to >different countries. > >I hope Cyndi and everyone else on the list will take this in the spirit I >mean it, but we Brits do cringe ever so slightly sometimes at this kind of >American pseudo-Havard business jargon and we prefer good old-fashioned >English! In fact, there is a popular campaign here supported by lots of >famous people and consumer organisations called the "Campaign for Plain >English". What's wrong with "national" for "locality specific"? > > >>Genealogy Benelux Home Page > http://www.ufsia.ac.be/genealogy/<< > >I wonder how many folks are poring over their international atlases trying >to find a country called Benelux? For those who are not familiar with it, >it 's an acronym or collective name for Belgium, the Netherlands and >Luxembourg, the three countries that founded the core of the European >Economic Community. > >Roy Stockdill Roy & All - Actually, you explained my reasoning for me. I use the term "locality" because there is no "nation" called Benelux and a site like GENUKI covers more than one nation as well (the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland). Of course, a site such as that for Federation of East European Family History Societies (FEEFHS) represents numerous nations that exist today or existed at some point throughout history in what is now Eastern Europe. Therefore the word "national" doesn't describe the contents of the list, but "locality-specific" does. In genealogy we research based on localities, not on nationalities (just ask anyone with Prussian ancestors...) Cyndi