Thank you for your reply Robert. Little by little I am getting a picture of the time that my great grandfather spent in his homeland before emigrating. Kind regards Estelle >From: Robert Jerin <rjerin26@yahoo.com> >Reply-To: croatia@rootsweb.com >To: croatia@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [CROATIA] Feudal system in Croatia >Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 02:41:52 -0700 (PDT) > >Estelle, > > You are correct. This system lasted until sometime around the peasant >revolts of c. 1848 > > Robert > >Estelle Daniels <stelly__57@hotmail.com> wrote: > Thank you Dr Former - that clarifies it somewhat for me. Am I right in >assuming that the "feudal lord" would have owned the land? >Regards Estelle > > > >From: Tat417761@cs.com > >Reply-To: croatia@rootsweb.com > >To: croatia@rootsweb.com > >Subject: Re: [CROATIA] Feudal system in Croatia > >Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 04:18:52 EDT > > > >Estelle, > >serf was not a slave or a servant. He had use of the land and paid a > >specified part of the fruit to the feudal lord who took care of the > >administration and > >defense. > >Some similarity to our tax payments. > > > >------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >CROATIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes > >in the subject and the body of the message > >_________________________________________________________________ >Advertisement: Chat with 1000s of Sexy Singles right now >http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Flavalife9%2Eninemsn%2Ecom%2Eau%2Fclickthru%2Fclickthru%2Eact%3Fid%3Dninemsn%26context%3Dan99%26locale%3Den%5FAU%26a%3D25447&_t=754951090&_r=chat&_m=EXT > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >CROATIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >in the subject and the body of the message > > > >To learn about my October 2007 Heritage and History tour of Croatia > http://www.croatia-in-english.com/rj/jerin2007.pdf > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >CROATIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Advertisement: Want FREE talk & text to 5 Telstra numbers?– Find out how http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fadsfac%2Enet%2Flink%2Easp%3Fcc%3DTEL243%2E40035%2E0%26clk%3D1%26creativeID%3D56076&_t=761565722&_r=Hotmail_email_tagline_1March07&_m=EXT