Nothing to do with genealogy, but careful Frances.
Although born in England, first modern style newspaper crossword appeared in USA in1913.
First English publication was in 1922 and the first Times Crossword was in 1930.
So US version hardly a 'dumbing down' rather some English versions are an improvement.
Manx Genealogy Archive 1 is maintained by isleofman.com
Powered by Tetra-WebBBS 6.11 / TetraBB PRO 0.22 © 2006-2010 tetrabb.com
0 wallclock secs ( 0.06 usr + 0.00 sys = 0.06 CPU)