Pack away for over 40 years

**NikoSan999** · 01-06-2011, 09:37 PM

Originally Posted by imagine

no memories for me. Just a physical connection to my past.

Learned things I never knew. Like what my grandmother looked like and that my grandfather had lived/worked over seas.

It would have been nice if someone who knew stories about these things was still alive to tell the stories. I just had to let the items, letters, yearbook speak for themselves.

It was amazing.

You might be surprised by googling or some other search engine, their names.

Ancestry.com might also provide more information...My mother found living relatives she didn't know existed, contacted them and they gave her pictures, letters and talked on and on about relatives she had found thru ancestry.com

here's a start

Google

**bumplett** · 01-06-2011, 09:58 PM

ok - so I know that I'm super nosy - but what I can't imagine is that YOU LIVED YOUR WHOLE childhood with this stuff in the basement and never looked through it?? Wow!!

I was always snooping in boxes in the basement, in the attic, boxes in the closet, etc....

I remember that my dad has the most boring paperwork in boxes for YEARS (it was tax documents) but I always peeked through them anyway, just in case I missed something interesting.....

**Debbie-cat** · 01-06-2011, 10:29 PM

How wonderful for you! I only have a few pieces of my grandmother's things and wish I had more. Very touching about the violin.

**imagine** · 01-07-2011, 08:52 AM

Originally Posted by bumplett

ok - so I know that I'm super nosy - but what I can't imagine is that YOU LIVED YOUR WHOLE childhood with this stuff in the basement and never looked through it?? Wow!!

I was always snooping in boxes in the basement, in the attic, boxes in the closet, etc....

I remember that my dad has the most boring paperwork in boxes for YEARS (it was tax documents) but I always peeked through them anyway, just in case I missed something interesting.....

I was a very obedient child. I was told to leave the boxes alone so I did.