No, I sent it in the native tongue. Often still in the small villages there may be no one who knows English. Second, it's just plain courtesy when sending an unsolicited letter. I have a long treatise on blind letters I would be happy to post here if you'd like more detail. -----Original Message----- From: Ginny Pietsch [mailto:vpietsch@pdq.net] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 9:00 PM To: SLOVAKIA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: "blind letters" Bill, Did you send the "blind letters" to Slovakia written in English? Just wondering if English is spoken and understood as much as it is in European countries. Toodles, Ginny Pietsch Houston, Texas Researching: Alexovitz, Dlugolinsky ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237