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Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

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Member Since: October 2006 Posts: 6,889 Send Message	RolloTheRed	Report	3 Nov 2017 11:04
	Borders went bust because of a huge mess in a new IT system which the management refused to accept. They had plenty of customers. Tragic. WHSmith, supermarkets and greedy landlords are gradually squeezing literacy to death in this country. Publishers are eating each other leaving nothing but an imprint behind. If you live in a university town there is probably a branch of Waterstone's. Maybe along with vinyl LPs real books will make a comeback. A book is not just text it is the paper, the font, the binding, the heft of the thing. With age a good book aquires patina and prescence. This even applies to paperbacks which is why early Penguins cost more. At least some of the young are discovering the tactile pleasures of non digital and eating out for real. :-)
	Researching: The Man In the High Castle
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 4,283 Send Message	SheilaSomerset	Report	3 Nov 2017 10:27
	The demise of Borders bookstore passed me by..... Used to spend lots of time in one of those 20-odd years ago!
	Researching: Gloucestershire, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, London, Lithuania, Russia
Member Since: October 2006 Posts: 6,889 Send Message	RolloTheRed	Report	3 Nov 2017 09:49
	Denny's has a distinctly late 50s decor and the menu has not moved on much either. A classic 50s/60s Ford or GM pickup (Bridges of Madison County) costs a small fortune. Sixties style is the latest cool thing in kitchens... Vinyl 33rpm LPs are outselling DVDs and can even be bought in J Sainsbury Wimpy are considering a UK relaunch. Happy Days "When I think back On all the crap I learned in high school It's a wonder I can think at all And though my lack of education Hasn't hurt me none I can read the writing on the wall Kodachrome They give us those nice bright colors They give us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day I got a Nikon camera I love to take a photograph So mama don't take my Kodachrome away If you took all the girls I knew When I was single And brought them all together for one night I know they'd never match My sweet imagination Everything looks worse in black and white Kodachrome They give us those nice bright colors They give us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day I got a Nikon camera I love to take a photograph So mama don't take my Kodachrome away Mama don't take my Kodachrome away Mama don't take my Kodachrome away Mama don't take my Kodachrome away Mama don't take my Kodachrome Mama don't take my Kodachrome Mama don't take my Kodachrome away Mama don't take my Kodachrome Leave your boy so far from home Mama don't take my Kodachrome away Mama don't take my Kodachrome Mama don't take my Kodachrome away " Paul Simon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrRRhoS3KFk
	Researching: The Man In the High Castle
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 29,988 Send Message	+++DetEcTive+++	Report	3 Nov 2017 09:09
	Although some of the images were more relevant to the US, it certainly brought back memories!
	Researching: Dormant member as from 20 Sep 2019 . Click on my board name to send a message
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 24,518 Send Message	Bobtanian	Report	3 Nov 2017 07:42
	applies to many countries, methinks... (gottit in a email, as you do) https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/QoDXTAajEzY?rel=0
	Researching: me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960

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