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From: Cathy L on 8 Oct 2007 08:27 On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:59:49 GMT, carolea7(a)comcast.net (Carole Allen) wrote: > > >>On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:59:28 +0200, Martin <me(a)address.invalid> wrote: >>Are you going to show us your holiday photos? >> >On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:17:04 -0400, Cathy L <lederer123(a)optonline.net> >wrote:> >Why do you want to see our vacation photos? Have you run out of people >>to make fun of? >> >But last year you said you were going to post some, but there were >sooo many and it was taking a long time to sort them out...so either >they were very blurry due to the bus movement, or it turned out to be >too much work to scan in all those postcards you bought via >mail-order. Carole, Why would we have bought postcards, mail-order? We currently have over 2,000 pictures of last years trip, and almost that many from the Germany trip. They are currently on line for our friends to enjoy. Sorry, but I don't think you qualify. Cathy
From: Cathy L on 8 Oct 2007 08:56 On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 01:14:13 GMT, carolea7(a)comcast.net (Carole Allen) wrote: >On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:27:56 -0400, Cathy L <lederer123(a)optonline.net> >wrote: > We >talked to five men that were guests there. Four were from Ohio >and one >>from Switzerland. They were doing extensive genealogy research. They >>showed us over a hundred pages of family tree information. They >>offered us their appointment at the courthouse in Bamberg for the next >>day. They weren't going to use it. > >I hope you realize all those records at the courthouse wouldn't have >been in English? Amateur genealogists, gotta love 'em - haven't a >clue how to properly research or document, or interpret the validity >of sources. The men showed us a document that they had obtained from one of the genealogy companies. It was about ten pages of Latin that was used in the German church records. They showed us how a lot of the records had the same pattern of phrases too. Cathy
From: Cathy L on 8 Oct 2007 09:08 On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 14:37:01 -0500, "Pat" <Pat(a)starrynight.com> wrote: > >Lord knows Cathy posts enough stuff that make me cringe as to her ignorance >without saying she's arrogant, etc. > >And Cathy, while you're at it, do some research into that Greek dance and >find out why the men wear those costumes. Educate yourself. > >Pat in TX > I really don't understand why you wouldn't block my posts. If what I say makes you "cringe with my ignorance". Sorry, but watching men dancing, holding hands and wearing toutous makes me snicker. As they say, Pat, you really need to "get a life". Cathy
From: Padraig Breathnach on 8 Oct 2007 09:45 Cathy L <lederer123(a)optonline.net> wrote: >Sorry, but watching men dancing, holding hands and wearing toutous >makes me snicker. > People who travel with such an attitude are wasting their time and their money. -- PB The return address has been MUNGED My travel writing: http://www.iol.ie/~draoi/
From: erilar on 8 Oct 2007 11:46
In article <470983b9.7193218(a)news.individual.net>, carolea7(a)comcast.net (Carole Allen) wrote: > On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:27:56 -0400, Cathy L <lederer123(a)optonline.net> > wrote: > We >talked to five men that were guests there. Four were from Ohio > and one > >from Switzerland. They were doing extensive genealogy research. They > >showed us over a hundred pages of family tree information. They > >offered us their appointment at the courthouse in Bamberg for the next > >day. They weren't going to use it. > > I hope you realize all those records at the courthouse wouldn't have > been in English? Amateur genealogists, gotta love 'em - haven't a > clue how to properly research or document, or interpret the validity > of sources. My youngest sister was trying to trace a branch in Germany via mail(some years ago). She had a secret weapon, though: I translated her letters and the replies she got. For doing live research I would think you'd need fluency in the written form of the language at least, or a companion who did. And have you looked at German handwriting a few generations back? Have fun. -- Mary, biblioholic bib-li-o-hol-ism : the habitual longing to purchase, read, store, admire, and consume books in excess. http://www.chibardun.net/~erilarlo |