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From: "susanmartin" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] ini file and divorce tag
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 10:16:06 -0500
References: <4.1.20000703235002.00a14d60@pop.mis.net> <000901bfe5b9$9d2325a0$13dca7d0@pavilion> <003301bfe5c8$11e4f220$04500a3f@1pka7>


Elizabeth,

Thanks for the advice. I was planning on doing further research into this
matter. All I need is a couple of good legs.

Susan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mills" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: [TMG] ini file and divorce tag


> > . . . have been doing most of the
> > research of the computer for the moment. I found the ship on which my
> great
> > parents and three great aunts came to the Port of New Orleans. My
> > great-grandmother's name is listed there as Faccarino instead of the
> > Taccarina which I had. Things are getting a bit confusing around here.
> Try
> > convincing a herd of Italians that things might need to be changed just
a
> > wee bit.
>
> Susan -- This isn't part of the advice that you asked for, but I can't
> resist offering it <g>. It sounds as though you have found a derivative
> source for that ship roll rather than the original. In fact, if it's
online
> in a database it's likely to be a derivative of a derivative of a
derivative
> of a . . . .
>
> Odds are that your herd of Italians knows the family name better than the
> person who transcribed the ship roll. (If your source traces back to the
> Balch Institute's Italians to America series, the transcriber was likely a
> student.) In older penmanship styles, capitals T and F frequently looked
> alike; and o and a are regularly confused. For that matter, even if you
are
> using the "original" roll created at the incoming port, remember that this
> roll was usually *copied* from the roll created at embarkation. The clerk
> who made that incoming roll could easily have misread the writing on the
> original outgoing roll.
>
> Elizabeth
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FASG
> Editor, National Genealogical Society Quarterly
>
>

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