Back in 2004 someone from Norway sent me a census reference of http://snipurl.com/8tzw. Of course, URLs have changed a great deal since then. Anyone recognize to what the reference was to. Pardon for ending a sentence in a prepositio. Sent from my iPad John Ferman Minneapolis, MN

http://snipurl.com is a website (app) that shortens long urls into shorter, more manageable ones, so this could have originally been really anything. Maybe someone could help if you provided the context (what census, where, who, etc.) Garth ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Ferman via" <norway@rootsweb.com> To: "Rootsweb Norway" <norway@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2015 7:56 PM Subject: [NOR] Old URL > Back in 2004 someone from Norway sent me a census reference of > http://snipurl.com/8tzw. Of course, URLs have changed a great deal since > then. Anyone recognize to what the reference was to. Pardon for ending a > sentence in a prepositio. > > Sent from my iPad > John Ferman > Minneapolis, MN

John, Old-style English teachers used to tell us we could not end a sentence in a preposition. That's not something that's so rigidly adhered to these days, especially in informal communication like an email. If the sentence flows and makes sense, go for it! The rule originally came from Latin, where the preposition and the word it was attached to were physically connected as part of the same word. In other words, it was impossible to "disconnect" them. In English, prepositions and the words they connect to are two separate words, so the rule makes a lot less sense. So as a former English teacher, I'd say, don't worry about the rule! Doris On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 6:56 PM, John Ferman via <norway@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Back in 2004 someone from Norway sent me a census reference of > http://snipurl.com/8tzw. Of course, URLs have changed a great deal since > then. Anyone recognize to what the reference was to. Pardon for ending a > sentence in a prepositio. > > Sent from my iPad > John Ferman > Minneapolis, MN > > > Norwaylist Archiveshttp:// > archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=norway > > RESUBSCRIBE UNSUB > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/NOR/NORWAY.html > > guidelines http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~norway/guidelines.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NORWAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >