Wednesday, October 20, 2004, 7:55:03 PM, Steven G. Cameron wrote: SGC> **His great, great grandfather, while escaping from the Pale and the SGC> latest spate of pogroms, had only enough funds to travel (west) as far SGC> as GB, settling for a time in Wales -- taking on menial labor to afford SGC> the final leg of his intended journey to NYC. It seems to have taken him SGC> about 13 months to save up enough. My father wanted to commemorate this SGC> stay (we also learned that he was treated well there, enjoyed Wales clearly a discerning man. SGC> said he didn't want to relabel all of his possessions. Too SGC> young/uneducated to understand that a Scots name wasn't the same SGC> as a SGC> Welsh one, yes well... you don't have to be young and uneducated to fail to understand that; there's a recent expensive EU book whose cover has map of Europe with a hole where Wales should be. -- Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html