Comments on: Family Heirlooms – 52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy

By: Susan D

Susan D — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:03:18 +0000

My family heirlooms may seem quite mundane and can be summed up as stitching, paintings, and postcards, plus a copper kettle and teasets, but they mean a lot to me. And what about at “tomorrow’s heirlooms” ? I have given my thoughts on the posting:

http://scotsue-familyhistoryfun.blogspot.com/2012/02/amy-at-httpwetree.html.

By: ERICA VOOLICH

ERICA VOOLICH — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:25:26 +0000

I posted this story earlier this week about a wonderful ring.

By: Robynne

Robynne — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:05:40 +0000

My most precious document is the Removal Order of my 3x great grandfather and his family from Somerset to Devon (in the UK).

Finding out when and why the family would move from Somerset to Devon was a bit of a brick wall at the time and I was thrilled to knock this wall down so cleanly.

By: Bob Nightingale

Bob Nightingale — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:12:06 +0000

After my aunt passed away last year, I got the letters sent from my grandmother to my grandfather during World War Two. I put them into a book “Camp Letters: 1942 – 1945″ so I could share them with my family. My sisters and cousins didn’t know half of it! No one writes letters like that anymore.

By: Suzi Bailey

Suzi Bailey — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:52:03 +0000

My most precious heirloom is my great grandmother’s (Lillie Husong nee Kincaid on my maternal side) SCRAPBOOK. In this book, my great grandmother traced hands ( in pencil) of all her family. She also clipped pieces of their hair…braided it, tied it with thread and sewed them on the pages of the scrapbook. She labeled each with their names, date taken and their ages. She did this when she was a young girl. Then when she became a married woman she continued tracing hands in this scrapbook and taking hair clippings but she also traced the feet of her babies. It is a very unusual keepsake but it brings me very close to these ancestors…some of whom I never knew. I did grow up knowing my great great grandmother, my great grandmother, and grandmother, and mother. I also treasure the photo I have of all 4 women with me (as an infant) sitting in my great great grandmother’s lap! Did not ever see this scrapbook until my mother passed away in 1997. One of my Aunt’s borrowed it and it was almost lost by her family. My Aunt passed away suddenly and this very fragile scrapbook was found stuck behind a desk where it had fallen. So happy that is was found and returned to me. I do think I would grab this scrapbook in the event of any disaster…it is irreplaceable!

By: Judy Webster

Judy Webster — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:07:00 +0000

I have previously written a blog post about my most significant heirloom - the original Certificate of Freedom issued to my great-great-great-grandfather, James WEBSTER, on 1 July 1823.

By: Kerin Stinear

Kerin Stinear — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:39:06 +0000

I have a Family tree which dates from 1396 to 1930 which hangs on my wall. It was passed down from my 2nd Great Grandmother, Caroline Ellen Holford (nee Iselin), on my mothers paternal side. Caroline is the last of her line listed on it. I do not know how she came by it but there are literally thousands of names, dates & places of births-deaths (in very tiny writing). This tree is my most valued treasure and the one thing I have instructed my family to save in the event of a disaster.