Posted by debbie hogan
on 1/16/2008, 10:40 am, in reply to "Re: What to do with heirlooms"
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I to have become the keeper of heirlooms and just starting to try and figure out what to do with them. I have some picts that might be of interest to historical places so i believe i will donte those, but what of all the pictures of people i don't know. I am starting to do some research. I beleive i will turn some of the photos into golages to be framed and displayed. I'm working on one know of old photoes of people and pets or just pets and i am very proud of it it is turning out beautiful and will look great in my livingroom. i want to try and perserve the old but hopefully it will be something that someone might be interested in when i am gone. If anyone has any other ideas please let me know. thanks debbie
--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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