"Singhals" <singhals@erols.com> wrote in message news:3CA876D7.A534F594@erols.com... > Lesley Robertson wrote: > > > > "Robert Jerin" <rjerin@adelphia.net> wrote in message > > news:uJJp8.9047$SG2.1179136@news1.news.adelphia.net... > > > > > > "Barbara Hardin Barkes" <barkesms@webtv.net> wrote in message > > > news:4359-3CA751E3-4260@storefull-2196.public.lawson.webtv.net... > > > > i you were postmaster in 1870s would post office ve records > > > > > > > > > > ?????????? What are you trying to say or ask? > > > > > And please specify the country involved. The answer is different for each > > one! > > Lesley Robertson > > Come on, Lesley. If you or I were a postmaster in the 1870s, it > wouldn't matter what country! Guiness (sp?) Book of World > Records would show us. After all, one had to be 21 to get a > government appointment of that sort, and this IS 2002 ...? > True, but is I apply my skills finely developed while marking 1st year undergrad reports to interpret the message, I have an idea that the question is where to find records about postmasters. Mine would be in Edinburgh..... Funnily enough I've just been typing up the details of 19th century Postmasters for my Whitsome research. It was a family thing - on the brother's death, the sister took it over. Lesley Robertson

Lesley Robertson wrote: > > "Singhals" <singhals@erols.com> wrote in message > news:3CA876D7.A534F594@erols.com... > > Lesley Robertson wrote: > > > > > > "Robert Jerin" <rjerin@adelphia.net> wrote in message > > > news:uJJp8.9047$SG2.1179136@news1.news.adelphia.net... > > > > > > > > "Barbara Hardin Barkes" <barkesms@webtv.net> wrote in message > > > > news:4359-3CA751E3-4260@storefull-2196.public.lawson.webtv.net... > > > > > i you were postmaster in 1870s would post office ve records > > > > > > > > > > > > > ?????????? What are you trying to say or ask? > > > > > > > And please specify the country involved. The answer is different for > each > > > one! > > > Lesley Robertson > > > > Come on, Lesley. If you or I were a postmaster in the 1870s, it > > wouldn't matter what country! Guiness (sp?) Book of World > > Records would show us. After all, one had to be 21 to get a > > government appointment of that sort, and this IS 2002 ...? > > > True, but is I apply my skills finely developed while marking 1st year > undergrad reports to interpret the message, I have an idea that the question > is where to find records about postmasters. Mine would be in Edinburgh..... > Funnily enough I've just been typing up the details of 19th century > Postmasters for my Whitsome research. It was a family thing - on the > brother's death, the sister took it over. > Lesley Robertson (G) Well, then, no wonder you sussed it out, with all that valuable training. (g) My grandfather's aunt was assistant postmistress in a small town in the US in the 1920s or 30s (one day I really MUST look that up!) and his father was PM at a tinier town for decades. Cheryl