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From: "Hilary Stanton" <>
Subject: TIA??
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 11:42:31 +0100
References: <013701c14a59$14b908a0$c69b01d5@t8q4f2> <003901c14a62$69db1360$3f31ff3e@oemcomputer>
Now I have the courage to ask - what is TIA ? She asks a lot of questions!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Offord" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 10:54 AM
Subject: SKS - a note of thanks
> Hi Graham,
>
> I was interested to note how many of the replies you got regarding 'SKS'
> mentioned comments like ''it took me a while to work it out''. None of
them
> had the sense to do what you did and ask, despite there being so many
> helpful people on the list. I too, like they, spent days pondering over
> what it could be and once I had come up with 'some kind soul' that seemed
to
> fit, that was good enough for me. I am very new to this game and there
are
> still things which I come across that aren't immediately apparent. Only
now
> has SKS been confirmed for me as 'some kind soul'. So thank you for
having
> the courage and taking the trouble to ask. (Remember, ignorance is only
> pitiable if we don't try to do something about it.)
>
> It would be jolly useful, particularly for those new people joining lists
> (as they do continually), if there were available, a comprehensive list of
> TLAs (three letter abbreviations!) that could be added to as new ones crop
> up. I would welcome a copy of such!
>
> Or put another way:
> Would SKS put TLA on the WWW? TIA.
>
> Phil.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Graham Bould" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 10:10 AM
> Subject: SKS
>
>
> > Dear Listers,
> >
> > This is to thank those kind souls who shone their torches of
enlightenment
> into the recesses of my pitiable ignorance on the subject of 'SKS'. Here
> was I trying to fathom which esoteric branch of genealogy it could
possibly
> refer to......;>))
> >
> > Thanks and best regards from
> >
> > Graham in north Norfolk
>
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