Maybe she was talking about location rather than nationality... --- Joe DeTata jdetata@angelfire.com On Tue, 26 Sep 2000 05:21:26 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 >Editor, The Journal of One-Name Studies >The Stockdill Family History Society (Guild of One-Name Studies, FedFHS) >STOCKDILL PREST YELLOW BOLTON WORSNOP >GIBSON MIDGLEY BRACEWELL SHACKLETON BRADLEY MOODY in Yorkshire North & >West Ridings >MEAD YOUNG in Somerset, Wiltshire & Gloucestershire >Web page of the Stockdill Family History Society:- >http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/roystock >Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you. >If he does not, why humiliate him?" - Canon Sydney Smith (scholar and >humorist 1771-1845) > > > >==== NEWGEN Mailing List ==== > ROOTSWEB..............R.I.P. > > Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com