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| The announcement of my birth via Telegram! A practically extinct form of communication! |
Wow – though I can’t say I’ve ever
sent one, it was interesting to just read
that in July (okay, so I was a bit behind on reading my Time magazine collection), in India, the
last telegram was
sent.
And, it was only a few years ago in 2006 that the last telegram was sent in the US.
Apparently, there
are still a few countries in the world where telegrams can be sent, though
between 2001 and the present, telegram services shut down in Australia , Canada ,
Ireland , Lithuania , Malaysia ,
Nepal Philippines
Though I have never
sent a telegram, at the time of my birth – my parents did send a telegram to
let my paternal grandmother know that I had entered the world! Transatlantic phone calls were prohibitively
expensive. My dad was stationed in England and his mom lived in King George Virginia.
Do you have any telegrams in your possession? What news do they convey?
What do you think has replaced telegrams as a means of communication?
Are there other types of communication have pretty much disappeared in our
lifetime?
Does this make our family history research easier or harder or it just doesn't matter?
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