On 22.05.2012 09:00, roots-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > LOL... And Have any of you wondered why we can't find records on our ancestors? Try all the phonetic spellings, and then of course there is just spelling it wrong in the transcription. > > Good luck hunting... > Nelda And then you have all those non-English surnames and given names that would not be possible to neither spell nor pronounce where the clerk gave the person a name. Period. Completely impossible to trace. (Just to put the theme back in line :-) ) -- Alf Christophersen Engineer, Dep. of Nutrition Research, Faculty of Medicine University of Oslo http://folk.uio.no/achristo