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Date:         Tue, 13 Oct 1992 14:23:31 EDT
Reply-To:     "Brian Abernathy" <cba@EWS002B.ATL.HP.COM>
From:         "Brian Abernathy" <cba@EWS002B.ATL.HP.COM>
Subject:      Looking for info on Ted Abernathy
Comments: To: ROOTS-L@VM1.NoDak.EDU

This is a rather unusual request, but it should still be in keeping with
the charter of this group.

Years ago, I attended a Braves ballgame, and remember seeing a Braves
pitcher by the name of "Ted Abernathy".  According to the Braves PR
office, Ted was only a member of the team for one year: 1966.  After that,
they have no information on him.  They were able to tell me that he was
born March 10, 1933 in Stanley NC.  I was wondering if there were any
baseball fans out there that might be able to tell me any more information
about Ted.

I am working on a family history, and would like to be able to include a
section on well known, or at least, semi well known Abernathys.

                                        Brian Abernathy
                                        Hewlett-Packard Company
                                        Atlanta Response Center
From: FIEDLEKE@UDAVXB.OCA.UDAYTON.EDU
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: HELP WITH MAIL!!!!
Date: 9 Oct 92 20:21:29 GMT
Reply-To: FIEDLEKE@UDAVXB.OCA.UDAYTON.EDU
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Comments: To: roots-l@vm1.nodak.edu

Here is an example of the problems I'm having:  will someone let me know
if this message goes through?

Thanks!  Karen (FIEDLEKE@UDAVXB.OCA.UDAYTON.EDU)


Date: 09 Oct 1992 16:05:44 -0400 (edt)
From: op@dg-rtp.dg.com
Subject: REJECTED:      Mail problem
To: FIEDLEKE@udavxb.oca.udayton.edu
Apparently-To: FIEDLEKE@UDAVXB.OCA.UDAYTON.EDU

   ----- Mail rejected by CEO. -----
(CEO_POA) Unknown addressee.   Mail not sent to:P

   ----- Unsent message follows -----
From: FIEDLEKE@UDAVXB.OCA.UDAYTON.EDU
To:  roots-l@vm1.nodak.edu
Subject:      Mail problem

Message:
Jim Freed says:

>Over the last week or so, when I've sent messages to ROOTS-L, I've
>received back messages that the mail has been "rejected by CEO".  AND
>this message is always received AFTER a first message indicating successful
>transmission to the net.  This last time I copied down where the rejection
>message is coming from and it states "op@dg-rtp.dg.com".   Have all the
>others of you who have sent messages to the net also received back
>"rejection" messages as well, and what is the explanation and what do we
>do about it?

I would also like to know what to do about it because I have also had problems
 sending
sending mail to ROOTS-L lately.  But my mail is rejected through our local
"post office" center.
Newsgroups: soc.roots
From: beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Denis Beauregard)
Subject: Re: Tree program for HP-GL plotters?
Organization: Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Quebec, Varennes, Canada
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:32:21 GMT

I wrote myself a tree program for HP-GL plotters.

Input is a list of persons like that:
1 Myself
2 Father's name
3 Mother's name
etc.

My program was taking this as input and printed as output a tree with
I think 12 generations, forming a mosaic to be assembled later.
It was very slow and printed in a window (2 parameters of the
program are the X,Y of one corner).  To print a full tree, you would
have to run the program for each of the tiles and it took some 20 minutes
each time.  If I find it back, I can modify it to improve on speed and
perform automatic page eject (it was using the printer auto page eject that
occured after a given time with no input). Perhaps a timer would help so
that I would just start the program at night and come back the next day to
take the output.

-- 
  \_\    Denis Beauregard  *  internet:beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca
 /   \   Ge'ne'alogiste des familles : Beauregard/Jarret/Jarest/Vincent
J   __>  Un Que'bec renouvele' dans une Ame'rique renove'e
\_.-===  Une entente au contenu insatisfaisant!     Mon opinion ? Non !
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Newsgroups: soc.roots
Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 14:17:52 LCL
Reply-To:     "(elizabeth hamm)" <bhamm%genesis.uucp@GTE.COM>
Comments:     Warning -- original Sender: tag was bhamm@GENESIS.NRED.MA.US
From:         "(elizabeth hamm)" <bhamm%genesis.uucp@GTE.COM>
Subject:      Hamm TT
Comments: To: roots-l@vm1.nodak.edu

I figured I'd get on the bandwagon and post a TT also.
I haven't been active as Id like on Roots-l as I find doing things from
home very $$expensive$$ and I tie the phone line up 'alot'. I get to read
all your letters....and the info continues to be very helpful....
Well, hope this helps someone who could use new info on a line!

N Elizabeth Butler Hamm

A 3 Westgate Rd.

A Billerica, Mass  01821

  bhamm@genesis.nred.ma.us

T (508) 667-6945

D /IBM/

F Brother's Keeper 5.0

Z 40 Brother's Keeper  MP

A526 1572:1572 ANGIER

B526 1821:1913 BANCROFT\/MASS

B452 1816:1846 BLANCHARD\Lexington, Mass./Arlington, Mass.

B400 1814:1814 BLUE\Ohio

B346 1844:1980 BUTLER\Columbus, Ohio/Warwick, R.I.

C160 1814:1814 CAFFRY\N.Y.C., New York/N.Y.C., New York

C460 1548:1548 CLARE

C552 1796:1796 CUMMINGS

F253 1816:1816 FESSENDEN\Lexington, Mass./Lexington, Mass.

F460 1420:1420 FULLER

G600 1747:1882 GORE\Roxbury, Mass./Auburndale, Mass.

G653 1846:1846 GRANT\Maine

H514 1793:1793 HAMBLET\Dracut, Mass/Dracut, Mass

H500 1920:1981 HAMM\Maine/Concord, Mass

H616 1892:1892 HARPER\Oakfield, Maine/Oakfield, Maine

H636 1792:1792 HARTER

H400 1813:1813 HELEY

H300 1788:1788 HOYT

J520 1774:1774 JAMES

K620 1844:1988 KERSHAW\N.Y.C., New York/

K620 1832:1832 KIRKE\Wilmington, Delaware/Wilmington, Delaware

L525 1898:1898 LANNIGAN\Moro, Maine/Moro, Maine

L235 1826:1826 LAUGHTON\Lancaster, Mass/Lancaster, Mass

M210 1759:1759 MCAFEE

P625 1789:1789 PARKINSON

P623 1687:1687 PRESTON

R200 1804:1879 REESE\Philadelphia, Penn./

S160 1758:1758 SEAVER

S655 1420:1820 SHERMAN\Yaxley, Suffolk Co. England/Lancaster, Ohio

S400 1846:1920 SOULE\Turner, Maine/Maine

S160 1819:1842 SPAHR\Pennsylvania/Baltimore, Ohio

S332 1803:1897 STETSON\Scituate, Mass/

S336 1758:1758 STODDARD

T460 1721:1721 TAYLOR

T643 1460:1460 THOROLDE

W460 1460:1460 WALLER

W500 1811:1811 WANN\Baltimore City, Maryland/Baltimore City, Maryland

W355 1783:1783 WOODMAN

Y500 1822:1822 YANAWAY

Y620 1868:1868 YORK\Shirden, Maine/Shirden, Maine

W 07 Oct 1992

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[B[BBe talking to you soon I hope...Beth Hamm
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Newsgroups: soc.roots
Date:         Sun, 11 Oct 1992 10:36:47 -0500
Reply-To:     Sven Hadenfeldt <hadenfeldt@CHEMIE.UNI-HAMBURG.DBP.DE>
From:         Sven Hadenfeldt <hadenfeldt@CHEMIE.UNI-HAMBURG.DBP.DE>
Subject:      piedmont "motorbuis

c
Subj:  Piedmont "motorbusiness"                Section: U.S. Ancestry
From:  Sven Hadenfeldt          100111,3334    # 0, * No Replies *
  To:  all                                     Date: 21-Sep-92 23:25:46


Hi all !
In an old book about my family a

Herrmann Daniel HADENFELDT

b 22 May 1874
d ?? ??? 19??

is said to own a "motorbusiness" (carsale??)
in Piedmont/CA

said Herrmann married Maud(e?) BLACKMANN in Detroit/MI 19/1/1903
children:
1) Frances 7/11/1906
2) Charles Townsend 29/12/1908

Does anybody have any more details / suggestions ??

Greetings from HAMBURG/Germany

SVEN
From: fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home)
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: Re: TT's
Date: 8 Oct 92 14:32:23 GMT
Organization: CompuData Inc.

Deon.Strydom@p16.f1.n7104.z5.fidonet.org (Deon Strydom) writes:

>Z 2 TTGEN-1.22 MP
>J230 1714*1900*Jooste\Lippestad, Duitsland/Suid-Afrika
>S353 1900*1900*Stander\Bremen, Duitsland/Suid-Afrika

This is an example of what I'm talking about. We're speaking Afrikans here. 
Luckily Bremen is Bremen no matter who speaks of it, but were we to use Aachen 
or Ko"ln or Danzig we'd run into the propensity of the English speaking world 
to rename things using third languages like the French word for Ko"ln 
(Cologne) or the Polish word for Danzig (Gdansk). Both cities have been German 
for a thousand years or more and we still don't use the name the people who 
lived there for all these years used.  

Somehow we need to get together on this. How can this be done? 

Fred
-- 
W. Fred Rump 	office:	   fred@COMPU.COM     'mans feet have grown/so big 
26 Warren St.   home: fred@icdi10.compu.com  that he/forgets his littleness'
Beverly, NJ. 08010                          		Don Marquis 
609-386-6846    bang:uunet!cdin-1!icdi10!fr   
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Date:         Fri, 9 Oct 1992 09:09:25 EDT
Reply-To:     "(J.P. Letellier)" <jp@WIZARD.NRL.NAVY.MIL>
From:         "(J.P. Letellier)" <jp@WIZARD.NRL.NAVY.MIL>
Subject:      PAF question
Comments: To: ROOTS-L@vm1.nodak.edu

I am using PAF on a 286 (sigh) with an epson MX-100 graphics printer.
Is there a utility floating around that will allow me to print my
charts sideways?  I would appreciate a name and an ftp'able location
if such a thing exists.  Thanks,
jp

		J.P. Letellier
		Code 5320
		Naval Research Laboratory
		4555 Overlook Avenue, S.W.
		Washington D. C. 20375-5320
		Phone:   (202)767-2937 or 3517 or 3264
		Autovon: 297-2937
		FAX:     (202)404-8687 or 767-3658
		e-mail:  jp@wizard.nrl.navy.mil
			 jp@nosc.mil
From: DL@UCSFVM.BITNET (David Lowndes)
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: Re: Old Photo from Denver
Date: 15 Oct 92 17:33:18 GMT
Reply-To: Ed Mertes <mertes@STL-07SIMA.ARMY.MIL>
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Comments:     Resent-From: David Lowndes <DL@UCSFVM>
Comments:     Originally-From: Ed Mertes <mertes@STL-07SIMA.ARMY.MIL>
Comments:     Warning -- original Sender: tag was ROOTS-L@NDSUVM1

Still another possibility if the subject of the research is deceased
is the Railroad Retirement Board in Chicago.  It functions as the
equivalent of a Social Security system for railroad employees (they
are not covered by Social Security).  It is a federal agency, and if
you send a letter to their Freedom of Information Act officer giving
your relative's name and Social Security number, they will send you
a copy of his file.  I did that for my great uncle (I didn't even have
his Social Security number, but the name was uncommon) who had died
in 1961, and they sent me a copy of his file within a month at no
charge.  It included his death certificate (unobtainable from New
York state), birth certificate, railroad payroll records, transcrip-
tion of marriage certificate, applications for pension, and survivor
designation forms.

The address is:

Freedom of Information Act Officer
Railroad Retirement Board
844 N. Rush Street
Chicago, IL  60611

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
PS.  Another possibility would be National Railroad Historical Society.  I'm
sure there is a chapter in the Denver area.  If you are interested I will
try to find thier address at home.
From: davidson@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: COLE family of Machias, Maine
Date: 11 Oct 92 13:57:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: ac.1992Oct11.165718.8067
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada


I recently acquired a boox ex libris the Porter Memorial Library 
(in Machias, Maine).

It has a rather interesting (and genealogically relevent) book-plate:

Cole Memorial Fund

Established in 1926 in loving memory of

ISAAC THOMPSON COLE
  1823 - 1861 and

CATHERINE SOPHIA VALENTINE COLE
  1832 - 1900

residents of Machias for some years 
	by their son
   WILLIAM ISAAC COLE

in behalf also of his brother 

SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE
  1851 - 1925

I hope this is of some use to someone. I am not presently researching
anyone in Maine so I have no additional information on this family.

Jonathan H. Davidson

DAVIDSON@AC.DAL.CA
Dalhousie Universiry
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada
From: perkins@MSUPA.PA.MSU.EDU
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: Re: Latin Anyone?
Date: 10 Oct 92 23:17:48 GMT
Reply-To: perkins@MSUPA.PA.MSU.EDU
Organization: MSU Dept. of Physics & Astronomy

In article <1992Oct10.090624.6913@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>, 
allenmk@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (The Not So Tall Adventurer) writes:

>Someone already translated this, so I won't even try to do that.  But I am
>curious about one thing--why is this document of the Greek Orthodox Church
>written in Latin?  I thought that Greek Orthodoxy had maintained the use of
>Greek in all things.  ??  Certainly someone out there knows more about this
>than I do (seeing as I know very little about it).

As the person who translated it, it seemed to me that this was a *civil*
document written _later_ based on research from the G-O Church's records
from the time of the baptism in question (hence the reference as to which
volume the information was from and the wording of the attestations of
accuracy, and the "signed in 1922" part when the baptism was in 1886). Of
course, the question remains as to why the civil authorities should write
in Latin... but perhaps in a region which kept getting shuffled back and
forth from Austria-Hungary to Germany to Poland, etc. over the years,
keeping civil documents in a "neutral" language was not such a bad idea.

BTW, for the original poster (Mark Rauschkolb):  I found a reference to the
town of Muszyna (in whose deaconate the parish of Mityk was listed) in a
Travel Guide to Poland.  It is listed as having a medieval castle, some
17th century points of interest and a local museum, and is a short drive
upriver from Nowy Sacz along the Poprad River.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
George J Perkins      perkins@msupa.pa.msu.edu   gjperkins@fnal.fnal.gov
From: fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home)
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: Re: Help with BK5
Date: 8 Oct 92 14:44:58 GMT
Organization: CompuData Inc.

falcon@BITSY.COOPER.EDU ((Anthony_Falcone-)) writes:

>my family.  The 'four family' printout (I think that's what it's called)
>comes close to what I'd like... but it has a set limit of generations.
>Do you know if what I would like exists out in software land? FTPable or
>commercial? Thankyou for your time.

I believe 5.1 BK now takes that anywhere from 2 to 12 generations. That's a 
bunch.

fred
-- 
W. Fred Rump 	office:	   fred@COMPU.COM     'mans feet have grown/so big 
26 Warren St.   home: fred@icdi10.compu.com  that he/forgets his littleness'
Beverly, NJ. 08010                          		Don Marquis 
609-386-6846    bang:uunet!cdin-1!icdi10!fr   
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Date:         Tue, 13 Oct 1992 12:53:08 CDT
Reply-To:     "Glenda F. Gillham" <gg@STL-07SIMA.ARMY.MIL>
From:         "Glenda F. Gillham" <gg@STL-07SIMA.ARMY.MIL>
Subject:      Sir Harry Oakes/Bar Harbor, Maine/Bahamas
Comments: To: ROOTS-L@VM1.NODAK.EDU

Re:  Susan Becklenberg's inquiry.

I was living in the Bahamas during the investigation of Sir Harry Oakes death.
Although I don't remember too much regarding the circumstances of his death, I
do think I have a book on the subject.   I think the name of the book is "Kings
X".  Tonight I will take a look at the book to see if it would be of any value
to your pursuit.

Glenda Ferrant Gillham, St. Louis MO
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Date:         Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:46:49 EDT
Reply-To:     Chris Munnelly <munnelly@XYLOGICS.COM>
From:         Chris Munnelly <munnelly@XYLOGICS.COM>
Subject:      Re: HELP WITH MAIL!!!!
Comments: To: ROOTS-L@vm1.nodak.edu

The problem with the mail is not found in the
ROOTS-L list.  The problem is most likely the mail program
at dg-rtp.dg.com.  Mail delivered to the list, gets to the
list successfully, but the author gets a rejected message from
this one site.  A quick solution would be to unsubscribe any
users who specify this mail host.  It may seem cruel in the
short term, but if the mail host is rejecting messages, the
users aren't getting roots traffic anyway.

What do the list owners think?

- Chris

+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
  Christopher P. Munnelly           (munnelly@Xylogics.COM)
  Searching: Broderick, Cadogan, Cahill, Carter, Casey, Leonard,
    McDonough, McGlew, McLane, Monnelly, Munnelly, O'Connell, Ogden
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Date:         Sun, 11 Oct 1992 05:54:16 PDT
Reply-To:     Tom Lincoln <lincoln@IRIS.RAND.ORG>
From:         Tom Lincoln <lincoln@IRIS.RAND.ORG>
Subject:      Carol Montrose -- King tut says: "You ain't there!
Comments: To: Roots-L@vm1.nodak.edu

Sorry to post this: the address on Karen's list doesn't work..

Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 23:46:01 -0400
From: Tut Superuser <root@cis.ohio-state.edu>
This mail message is undeliverable.

To: Carol.Montrose@f130.n226.z1.fidonet.org
Subject: +Grubb & +Haines...
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 92 14:29:32 PDT
From: Tom Lincoln <lincoln@iris.rand.org>


Carol:

Saw your new names on karen's list...

+Grubb        1780  1886 LancasterCo,PA>Stark/KnoxCo,OH cm

It just happens that I recently received a short typewritten
Grubb genealogy which traces a line from Thomas Grubb (b. 1540
in Stoke Climsland, Cornwell, England) through Henry, Henry,
John (b. 20 Apr 1652) who came to PA with William Penn.. these
are only derivatively kin of mine.. If you would like a copy, I
would be happy to send it to you.

Next:

+Haines       1700  1800 VA/NJ cm

H520 1810:1914 Haines\Oak Hill PA/Oxford PA  tl

Did any of your Haines stop in PA on their way north to NJ??

My g.grandfather Able-Thomas Lincoln married at Phila PA on 16
Feb 1864 Elizabeth Haines (b. 5 Aug 1836), daughter of Nathan
and Lydia (Pierce) Haines of Oak Hill, PA. They were Quakers.

Tom
From: lhe@dash.udev.cdc.com (lh erickson 913-469-9264)
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: Re: Minnesota.hstrcl.scty
Date: 16 Oct 92 23:15:29 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Karen Fiedler fiedleke@udavxb.oca.udayton.edu asks:

>Does anyone out there happen to have the address for the Minnesota
>State Historical Society?

The correct answer:  YES!

690 Cedar Street
St Paul, Minnesota
(612)296-6126
Hours: Monday 9:00am to 8:30pm
  Tuesday-Saturday 9:00am to 5:00pm
Located next to state capital buiding.

Ron Erickson
lhe@hare.udev.cdc.com
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Date:         Fri, 16 Oct 1992 09:34:57 CDT
Reply-To:     "Bob Eberle (Eberle@vnet.ibm.com)" <eberle@VNET.IBM.COM>
From:         "Bob Eberle (Eberle@vnet.ibm.com)" <eberle@VNET.IBM.COM>
Subject:      Re: Clayton Library open 11/27?
Comments: To: ROOTS-L@vm1.NoDak.EDU

Kathleen,

I checked with the Clayton Library.  It will be closed November 26 and 27, but
it will be open on the 25th, from 9:00am to 9:00pm, and the 28th, from 9:00am
to 5:00pm.

Cheers,
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Date:         Fri, 9 Oct 1992 07:28:45 PDT
Reply-To:     John Pimentel <pimentel@EARRTH.ENET.DEC.COM>
From:         John Pimentel <pimentel@EARRTH.ENET.DEC.COM>
Subject:      Connections to and from FidoNet
Comments: To: roots-l@vm1.nodak.edu

For those that will be sending mail (read:replies to a specific person)
to and from FidoNet the method of addressing is:
Note: This posting only covers nodes in Zone 1 or the United States and
Canada)

FIRST:  MAIL TO FIDONET

    userfirstname.userlastname@pAAA.fBBB.nC.z1.fidonet.org

    the pAAA.fBBB.nC.z1.fidonet.org would translate to 1:CCC/BBB.AAA

    *IF* the value for pAAA is p0 then it may be omitted as it is the
    default.

SECOND: MAIL FROM FIDONET

    IN NETMAIL AREA (subject to sysop approval)

    FROM: your name
    TO:   uucp
    SUBJECT:

    <in the body of the text>
    to: <place on the first line the uucp address>

NOTES: 1.- Personal messages are *not* normally welcome in USENET
           messages as they are in echoes.
       2.- Please maintain the right margin to less than 72
           characters.
           There exists in USENET a problem with some of their mail
           readers being unable to handle lines beyond 72 characters.
           When it is learned that FidoNet is connected the blame
           falls upon FidoNet systems, even *if* the problem existed
           before FidoNet was connected, which is more times than not,
           the case.  (Personal knowledge having been on both sides
           of the issue.)  Sadly, in a small number of cases the problem
           is fabricated, to keep the issue alive.  So do your best
           to keep the lines below 72 characters, and usenet won't have
           anything to complain about.  (Sidenote:  Now if "we" could
           get some of those individuals to recognize that not everyone
           has the ability to read 132 characters per line, psst, the
           problem really is those with workstations, they just keep
           typing and typing -- like an eveready battery, but don't
           tell anyone.)

John Pimentel.
Sysop In Remembrance BBS john.pimentel@f315.n322.z1.fidonet.org
(till 11/30/1992)
Newsgroups: soc.roots
From: elle@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Ellen Keyne Seebacher)
Subject: Re: It once was Austria but now is Poland ...
Reply-To: elle@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 15:19:47 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.232017.11169@ra.msstate.edu> mrr1@Ra.MsState.Edu writes:
>My Great-Grandfather was born in an area called Galicia, that was at
>that time part of Austria-Hungary.  It is now South-West Poland.  How
>should this be recorded.  I can't accurately say he was born in Poland,
>but if I say he was born in Austria, people think of today's Austria.

Say "Galicia, Austria-Hungary"; no one will be confused by your using
the name of a well-known kingdom which happens not to exist today, and
any dictionary or atlas will show that the Galicia in Eastern Europe
is now in Poland.  (If you have a town name, I'd say "<town>, Galicia,
Austria-Hungary".)

Don't say just "Galicia" -- you don't want people confusing it with
the region in northwest Spain.

--                    __
Ellen Keyne Seebacher \/             elle@midway.uchicago.edu
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