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From: "Rutkowska and Hopkin"
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 21:07:11 +0100 (Vest-Europa
> Hi
> if your wondering why we are so "opptatt" with how to write in other
>languages, as John Ball pointed out to me,many of us on this list have
>ancestors from most of Europe, and some from Asia, Africa.America and
>Australia. I have a friend in Kickapoo OK. USA, when looking the place up on
>the web find that there are Native Americans from the Kickapoo tribe who
>still try to keep the Kickapoo language alive! There is an Anglo Indian site
>on the net, (bumped into it whilst trying trace Hopkin and Roberts in the
>various regiments that served on the Indian sub continent.) There is a
>considerable Scottish and Welsh impulses both in the Cariebian and South
>America. The USA, Canada Australia have become "melting pots" were Jones
>suddenly becomes Wytczak in a generation. and one is tracing in Polsku with
>all the a and e with tails z with dots on them and a l that is crossed so
>that Stanislave can be pronounced Staniswave, just to point to some of the
>difficultiesto be encountered.
> Wish I could speak Welsh, but I can't, I'm sorry to say I know better how
>to cope with szcz in Polish than a LL in Welsh. and my Polish is pretty
>rotten, to say the least. Is there a good Welsh course on the net/cd ?
>My grand children speak norsk bokmål , Greek and the two Irish English with
>Irish Galig as a second language.
>So busy in four languages looking for ancestors to my grand children, have
>til now gone to Microsoft and down loaded fonts to pass.
>But do see the advantage of ALT if one writes in plain text. Plain text for
>us in Norway includes æ.ø.å. but to write a crossed l or an umlauted a, e,
>or z needs ALT so thanks John.
>Some of my Hopkin(s) had connections with fairs so have done a deal of
>trawling there, there is a JONES, family with a tradition going back a good
>few hundred years that are circus folk. How many other Joneses joined them,
>in the course of time I don't know but worth a look if you hit a brick wall
>into the travelling peoples site.
>Finally interests
>ROBERTS Clwyd and Defyd, + Lancashire
>HOPKIN Wales, Ingleton Yorkshire, Leicestershire
>GADSBY Leicestershire
>JACKSON Settle district Yorkshire
>HARDACRE Settle district Yorkshire
>RALPH Settle district Yorkshire
>WHYTE Scotland Wales Jamaica Cuba and USA and Canada
>SCHEIENEN West Norway (also spelt Skjienen and Skienen)
>JOHANNESSEN Norway
>JOHNSON Bergen district Norway
>RUTKOWSKA Poznan area Poland
>WYTCZAK Poznan area Poland
>FRANGISKOS Athens area Greece
>TTFN
>Terry
>Arendal
>Norway
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