Posted by Rick
on 12/12/2007, 4:01 pm, in reply to "Re: What to do with heirlooms"
130.47.34.2
You might have a state historical Society or recreated village museum that would be happy to accept the heirlooms and keep the history/family stories attached. An ancestor of mine donated firearms and farm implements to the Wisconsin Historical Society. Those items are on display for the public to see and will not end up on Ebay.
--Previous Message--
: I wish I had a relation such as you, Kat.
: My problem is that I am the last of my
: line. My aunts & uncles had no
: children, so it all traces back to
: greeat-grandparents, great-aunts &
: great-uncles, whose births ranged from
: 1856-1911. I am pushing 60, so the
: cousins of whom I speak are cousins
: many times removed. Those cousins of my
: own generation passed away before I was
: born. They are people whom don't really
: know. Our common ancestors are my
: great-grandparents, their
: gt-gt-gt-grandparents, who were born in
: the 1830s. They are widely scattered
: across the country. There are no family
: reunions. Many of my items do not even
: pertain to their direct ancestors, but
: to people who would have been their own
: parents' cousins.
:
: I guess I'm wondering... does my duty
: lie with keeping an item with its
: history, its provenance... or does my
: duty lie simply with seeing that the
: item somehow remains within that
: bloodline, even if those potential
: heirs know nothing & care little
: about the history or their ancestors?
:
: I am leary of cousins whose first
: question about an item is not "To
: whom did it belong?" but "Is
: it worth anything?"
:
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