Thanks Wendy for the letter abbreviations info. Can I make a suggestion please? Is it possible when a new person arrives in this mailing list that we can all be told, so that we can all say "Hi" and make them feel welcome. I know that Greg does this and it might be far to much to ask because I know that you are flat chat now. I have mentioned before that I know of a lot of people that have popped into the Loveless/Lovelace list and been overwhelmed by the amount of Loveless/Lovelace information going through, then find it impossible to find a connection and go away feeling frustrated. This is the whole reason this list was set up and it would be good if we all knew each other. Please feel free to tell me to bug off if I am asking to much. Irene from stifling hot Victoria Australia. PLEASE SEND A COOL BREEZE! ;-/ At 00:28 17/01/99 -0500, you wrote: > >Irene and all, > > I think we all suffer from not knowing enough about other country's >geography. The two letter abbreviations for that states are not >necessarily used universally internationally. American's are taught >geography rather in a self-centered way; we often don't know where some of >the Canadian provinces or the English references are. > > I don't know for sure where to get a listing of the states abbreviations, >Irene, but on our Lovelxxx web site, there is a map with the two letter >abbreviations with the state spelled out in full below. The address is: >http://www.iredell.net/us_map.htm. You can click on one or the other to >find the corresponding reference. We don't have any international listings >yet, though. Nova Scotia is in Canada. I'm not as familiar with Canadian >cities and provinces, but those should be fairly easy to obtain from an >atlas or even encyclopedia reference. It might help us here in our posts >to spell out more specifically the locations of our references since we're >all so geographically diverse. > > Please note that Rootsweb is working on their servers this weekend and >that our web site might be difficult to access for a couple days. Stop back >to check it out, though! > >W. > [email protected] >Publisher of Lovelace Legacy newsletter >Lovelxxx web page: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lovelace >Earliest Lovelxxx ancestor: Stephen H. Loveless born MD 1794/96 died >Coshocton Cty., OH > > >