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Forum: Rest of the World
Mar 28th 2024, 9:09 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,126
Posted By morpeth

Re: Back in the Day

The hobby - described as "the king of hobbies and the hobby of kings"- is slowly dying in terms of number of collectors, let alone more serious philatelists. My children certainly have no interest,...
Forum: Rest of the World
Mar 21st 2024, 6:47 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,126
Posted By morpeth

Re: Back in the Day

I had a similar assumption for years but finally it dawned on me the difficulties my parents had when they were in their 80s. The Aunt I referred to lived until 108, and while it was quite an expense...
Forum: Rest of the World
Mar 5th 2024, 8:30 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,126
Posted By morpeth

Re: Back in the Day

I was fortunate that due to changes in work, and realization my parents needed help, I moved back to where they were (both were 89, and passed away at 91) and that two years made me realize I should...
Forum: Rest of the World
Oct 28th 2023, 8:09 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,126
Posted By morpeth

Re: Back in the Day

Deut. 15:12 (KJV)

And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

Indentured...
Forum: Rest of the World
Oct 21st 2023, 7:49 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,126
Posted By morpeth

Re: Back in the Day

Indentured workers from Britain were a significant portion of early settles to America, some choosing to sign up so that after 7 years they were free to pursue their lives in America.

The 7 years...
Forum: Rest of the World
Oct 3rd 2023, 6:43 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,126
Posted By morpeth

Re: Back in the Day

My first 'real job' was as a management trainee in Finance, and of the training was doing auditing for 6 months, good training for all my subsequent career.

Yes 'fake news' common in genealogical...
Forum: Rest of the World
Sep 29th 2023, 11:36 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,126
Posted By morpeth

Re: Back in the Day

Try MyHeritage.com, easy to use to research and organize information.A)1 grandparent couldn’t get past first census in Scotland in 1840, but easy enough via MyHeritage.con, Findmypast. And ordering a...
Forum: Rest of the World
Sep 25th 2023, 6:59 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,126
Posted By morpeth

Re: Back in the Day

Looking back on the ancestry of my grand parents found I could trace ancestry directly on one to 9th century, one to 12th century, one to 17th century, the other to 19th century.My stating point was...
Forum: Rest of the World
Sep 17th 2023, 6:34 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,126
Posted By morpeth

Re: Back in the Day

Stamps can be sold on e-bay, via auction on ebay or , or if particular value to dealers or auction houses, in USA market there uses the Scott catalogue pricing not Gibbbons. If you are in area that...
Forum: Rest of the World
Aug 26th 2023, 7:08 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,126
Posted By morpeth

Re: Back in the Day

The current adhesive stamps used are more challenging to remove from paper, and countries decades ago accelerate the number of stamps made- reducing the value of modern stamps. But even accumulation...
Forum: Rest of the World
Aug 22nd 2023, 1:27 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,126
Posted By morpeth

Re: Back in the Day

A dying hobby for children for a variety of reasons, and how modern stamps are made compounds the issue, The usual trajectory is a man in his 30s, settled down discovers a childhood stamp album and...
Forum: Rest of the World
Aug 20th 2023, 10:15 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,126
Posted By morpeth

Re: Back in the Day

I have them in storage, and plan to sir my daughter down to read when she is a bit older- in particular the reference letters.

I have become more interested in genealogy in recent years- reading...
Forum: Rest of the World
Aug 16th 2023, 8:25 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,126
Posted By morpeth

Re: Back in the Day

I remember studying in Switzerland when my parents were in Indonesia- I had to make a 'reservation; for a time to make the call-and at times there would be a double-echo : so I spoke,would hear the...
Forum: Rest of the World
Mar 24th 2023, 9:55 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,126
Posted By morpeth

Re: Back in the Day

Gordon, this morning I was on the plane sitting next to a retired lady (in her late 50s) who lives in Cayman, and was a teacher there .
Forum: Rest of the World
Mar 16th 2023, 3:22 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,126
Posted By morpeth

Re: Back in the Day

I did summer work for an American company in London back in the 70s, the tea lady coming by in the mornings and the afternoons drove the American managers crazy.

On the other hand, managing a...
Forum: Rest of the World
Mar 15th 2023, 2:26 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,126
Posted By morpeth

Re: Back in the Day

She has branched out to different topics, and she has an engaging manner.

Her series 'how to act Indonesian' perhaps only so funny if one has lived in Indonesia and speak a bit of Indonesian. She...
Forum: Rest of the World
Mar 15th 2023, 4:04 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,126
Posted By morpeth

Re: Back in the Day

JD thanks for the commentary.

There is a YouTube series called 'How to Act Indonesian'. It is extremely politically incorrect, but if one remembers the person doing the series loves Indonesia, and...
Forum: Rest of the World
Mar 14th 2023, 4:27 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,126
Posted By morpeth

Re: Back in the Day

I hear you about long flights, and the hassle travelling can be these days. About twenty years ago on business I was flying from the West Coast to London often. I finally discovered airport hotels. I...
Forum: Rest of the World
Mar 14th 2023, 6:51 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,126
Posted By morpeth

Re: Back in the Day

While I avoid social media and so forth, WhatsApp has proven to link up with old friends or people I knew. Through a whats app group from my university found out .one classmate lives in Amsterdam a...
Forum: Rest of the World
Feb 28th 2023, 6:26 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,126
Posted By morpeth

Re: Back in the Day

In the 1970s in university in Switzerland we used to go to Paris on cheap package train trips, staying at the worst hotels for sure, And often walking around at all hours getting back- never did I...
Forum: Rest of the World
Feb 24th 2023, 5:27 pm
Replies: 310
Views: 32,126
Posted By morpeth

Re: Back in the Day

Gordon, a relatively recent book relating to this issue is "The Coddling of the American Mind - How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting up a Generation For Failure."

When I remember my...
Forum: Rest of the World
Feb 20th 2023, 9:11 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,126
Posted By morpeth

Re: Back in the Day

Thanks for the comments.

As far as Switzerland, I lived there five years in the 70s, Wonderful views, extremely clean and well organized, and living in a village in the French section great place...
Forum: Rest of the World
Feb 19th 2023, 10:26 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,126
Posted By morpeth

Re: Back in the Day

JD, I agree some cities now simply have gone so downhill- Indonesia a perfect example. Jakarta for a young person in the 1970s was great, now I can't imagine why anyone would visit or live there. At...
Forum: Rest of the World
Feb 19th 2023, 7:34 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,126
Posted By morpeth

Re: Back in the Day

JD thank you for your post.

I used to have a girlfriend in Grenoble, while I was student in Switzerland- whether by train or hitchhiking I would visit Grenoble often ( in the 70s) , and your...
Forum: Rest of the World
Feb 14th 2023, 5:25 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,126
Posted By morpeth

Re: Back in the Day

Actually, I love France as well for many reasons, yet at the same time on average they can be very rude especially if one doesn't act the way the French believe one should act. Actually with with...
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