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From: Alan Leighton <>
Subject: Re: Some Advice Re: [TMG] Hi! and other stuff
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 12:37:57 +0100
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>bob gillis wrote:
>
>>Richard Brogger wrote:
>>
>>>Anyone what to tell me with assurance where
"Wilhelmhaven NS" is
>>>located. Does NS stand for Nova Scotia? It does not but
how would a
>>>reader know?
>>>
>>No it is not Nova Scotia but what country is it in? Is
NS the German
>>abbreviation for Neider Saxony? And for any county
outside the USA I
>>put the country in.
>>
>>bob gillis
>>

FWIW, if this really is the German port, then please note
the "s" in
Wilhelmshaven (i.e., not Port William but William's Port),
and also that
the province is Niedersachsen (one word, and Nieder, not
Neider, and
Sachsen, not Saxony). (Also please note the "chs", not "sch"
in Sachsen --- pronounced "Zox'n".) The English would be
Lower Saxony.

I am not an expert on German political history (a complicated
subject!!!!!), but I believe Niedersachsen was not yet a
state during
the main period of migration from Germany to America. Any
good public
library should have some sort of atlas of history, or book
on German
history, which would contain such information. Niedersachsen
certainly
is one of the main provinces of today's Germany.

Cheers, and Frohes Neues Jahr 2002

Alan Leighton





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