Perhaps dumb is a strong word in this usage. In my case, years of putting United States in a record before 1777 was certainly an avoidable mistake had I been thinking. It has been rectified in all my records. Those records for people prior to 1777 have generally British America, but not all. Really no different in using Wisconsin before 1848 since Wisconsin didn't exist before that or Hawaii or Alaska prior to 1959. Territory yes, state, no. Ron Submarine Vet. On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Nivard Ovington wrote: > Again I could not agree more with you > > We all use different words and ways to communicate and sometimes it > does not read well when no malice was intended > > Email is one of those methods that is sometimes hard to convey the > right tone hence copious use of smileys :-) > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > > On 07/06/2012 22:09, BARTON LEWIS wrote: >> Okay, point taken but as someone who has been guilty of being >> insensitive in the past, just think we need to be careful how we >> phrase >> things on the web. >> >> Barton > ===== > If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to > roots-admin@rootsweb.com and ask for the digest... > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message