[APG Public List] [APG Members] Greece - Peloponnese

[Meredith Hoffman / GenerationsWeb]

The Nice translator has a Greek translator. I've tried the Belarus and  
Hebrew translators and was pretty impressed. As with any machine  
translation, it's by no means perfect, and you have to be willing to  
read between and around the lines sometimes, but I've certainly been  
able to get the gist of most sentences and paragraphs I've tried it  
on, and for straightforward language it's not bad.

It will also translate _into_ the languages you have configured as  
translators. I haven't had a chance to try that -- the only language  
I'm competent enough in to judge its performance is French and at some  
point I mean to test that out; I'd also like to test with several  
native speakers how well it translates into Hebrew and Russian.

But given how reasonably it translates into English from various  
languages, it likely does a good enough job that in a pinch you could  
use it to communicate with the Greek site.

--Meredith

Meredith Hoffman / GenerationsWeb
Plymouth, MA

JGSGB Publicity Chair
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On 2010Aug20, at 11:10 AM, Katherine Flynn wrote:

> Dear Bonnie,
>
> Believe it or not there is a Facebook page for that village (this  
> would be tough to find without knowing a bit of the greek alphabet).
> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19237548542
>
> It is all in Greek BUT there is an e-mail addess for the owner of  
> the page and maybe you can email them AND post a question on that  
> Facebook site which is open to all.  It looks like an active site so  
> it may pay off.  If you can someone who can write the posting in  
> Greek it might succeed better.
>
> There is a Hellenic Gen and Hist Soc here in the USA which also may  
> be useful:
> http://www.helleniccomserve.com/genealogy.html
>
> I wish your clients a beautiful trip.  Good luck with this.
>
> Sincerely,
> Kathy Flynn
>
>

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