I've uploaded a translation into English of the page on German dialects. http://www.genealogy.com/gene/tmp/up/pages/dialect.html Please check it over. It should be moved to /gene/ghlp/dialect.html It is not purely a translation: I added a short discussion of the common use of the terms High and Low German. Thanks! -- =Jim Eggert EggertJ@LL.mit.edu