Gradstudent  +  201340 Mon, 27 Feb 06 05:27 AM Hello, I'm new to this site and I'm hoping that anyone reading this can help. My name is Stacey Denovchik, I am a graduate student studying Geography, trying to complete research for a thesis. I am trying get information about as many countries and cultures as possible. I am conducting research on engagement customs around the world. I hope to gather enough information to present a world view of current engagement rituals and contribute to our understanding of global culture. I have created a online survey to gather information and opinions. It's really short and will take about five minutes. You will be asked questions regarding your country, cultural and family customs. Please take a few minutes to follow the link below. If you know anyone else that can help please feel free to pass the link along. This is a voluntary survey, all responses are kept confidential and no names will be requested or recorded. You can choose to quit the survey at any time by closing the server without hitting the submit button. Thank you so much for your help. If you have any suggestions as to ways to reach people please let me know. If you want to know the end results let me know. http://FreeOnlineSurveys.com/renders...t8jkkfru167358 Gradstudent Joined on Mon, Feb 27 2006 United States New Member 05

	nona the brit  +  201436 Mon, 27 Feb 06 11:33 AM Your link doesn't work. nona the brit Joined on Wed, Sep 22 2004 England Veteran Member 11,713 The name says it all.

	Sharann  +  201616 Mon, 27 Feb 06 11:34 PM Hey, I've seen this post somewhere else and I didn't find a word: THE LINK, thank you Nona the Brit for my missing word. This is quite late here a   bd unable to say what I think....Do I become a bit old???? Anyway I had the same answer as you but a bit longer for: the link doesn't work. Thanks again Nona! Sharann Joined on Tue, May 11 2004 England, at the mo Full Member 156 Les millenaires n'ont pas suffi à l'homme pour apprendre à voir mourir

	Gradstudent  +  201998 Wed, 01 Mar 06 03:01 AM Thank you so much for trying. This is very frustrating.  I am going to try to post this link again. I hope that it works this time. http://FreeOnlineSurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=p53e4l2t8jkkfru167358 Gradstudent

	Robyn Terri  +  202144 Wed, 01 Mar 06 02:34 PM Gradstudent, You do not ask the age or the gender of people participating. For example, I am sure that most women will say yes to maintaining the engagement ring custom, men might not care so much. Age is a factor. I am almost 46. I was married and am now divorced. I do not expect to get engaged or married again so I answered the last two questions from my past experience. Robyn Terri Joined on Sat, Apr 16 2005 Western Australia Full Member 323 Words don't have meanings, meanings have words. Genders

	Gradstudent  +  203215 Sat, 04 Mar 06 10:55 PM Thank you soo much for taking the survey. It's so hard to pass this along. I thought about how ages and gender would effect the results, I think that you are completely right. They both make a huge difference in points of view. My professor and I were talking about how that would make a really good sub-study. My hope with this first research is to pin down the countries where they give Diamonds as engagement rings. I hope to see if there is a connection to De Beers. Gradstudent Genders

	rishonly  +  203569 Mon, 06 Mar 06 05:58 AM Hi Gradstudent, I am curious to take the survey but your link or URL doesn't work. Can you post the right URL? PS: Just ignore this message since you I got the right URL from your follow-up message. rishonly Joined on Sat, Mar 5 2005 KUMBAKONAM,INDIA Contributing Member 1,782 Regards, Krishna