Oh how many times do we say that,!
I missed contacting someone ,my cousin but much older than me,who would in all probability have photographs of long dead members of my Mum’s family.Two lovely girls who died very young from T.B.and an older sister who died from cancer.My Mum’s family were almost all born before the turn of the century so 1800s,but there were photographs .
When his mother, my Mum’s oldest sister died he destroyed all the photographs she had and she was the eldest of the family, and mementos probably because his father,poor man took his own life after
serving in WWI,the family had a very hard life as you can understand,pre benefit days.
How many times did I mean to contact him,then he too died very suddenly.
Nothing to do now but my Mum,’s family were of two types,tall and very slender like Grandad and short and plump like Grandma.
I wonder which type those girls were .
When Mum was still. alive and told us lots of stories about her large family
I never thought to ask what they looked like,and she never said .
Yes we do regret so much but still by recording their details we are keeping their memory alive so I can understand your sadness and regret as you were not able to do that.
Nothing to do now,and I can empathise.
Viktoria.