Internment.net is not the burial site. It is interment.net but Steve Johnson, the webmaster of interment.net, bought internment because a lot of people make this mistake and it was showing up in his log files. Either will work but the site is http://interment.net --- "Carole O. Cole" <cnjcarole@msn.com> wrote: > It's a common mistake, but if www.internment.net is about burials, they have > used the wrong word. I just checked the Web site, and they have it right. > It's www.interment.net. It's some of our listers who have it wrong. > > > intern is a verb, and means "to restrict to or confine within prescribed > limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troops who take refuge > in a neutral country." > > internment is a noun and is "the act or an instance of interning, or the > state of being interned; confinement." > > inter is a verb, and means "to deposit a dead body in a grave or tomb; > bury." > > interment is a noun that means "the act or a ceremony of interring; burial." > (Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary) > > The two words are not interchangeable and do not mean the same thing. > > Even funeral parlor employees make the same mistake when they send > obituaries to our local newspaper. > > I hope those of us involved in genealogy will be alert to this and make the > effort to be helpful to those who use these words incorrectly and point them > toward correct usage. > > Carole O. Cole > > > ==== NJMONMOU Mailing List ==== > Monmouth County NJGenWeb page: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~njmonmou > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > ===== Sincerely, David Podmajersky, Webmaster DistantCousin.com Please visit: http://DistantCousin.com - genealogy data library http://CousinConnect.com - genealogy query system http://AdopteeConnect.com - birth parent query system If you have a web site, please link to these sites