Memento of the Past

[Lady Di]

Hi All,

I have always been rather envious of people who have parents/grandparents who kept "everything" only to have these special items discovered many years later (usually by the family historian)

I didn't think it would happen in my family - BUT....

In the mail on Friday I received the original birthday postcard sent from my grandfather to his mother (my great grandmother). It's dated 4 March 1918.

My elderly Aunt/2nd Cousin?? had found this and another one when doing a "clean up" - I have fingers crossed for when she next does a "clean up" 

Do others have this type of Memento of the Past?

Di

[dawnwas]

Lady Di...what a great find ,and no I have not been handed anything that was saved and passed down through the generations.
My sister in law does have a big box full of beautiful cards that her Grandad sent to her Grandma during WW1.
How are you going to display the card?
Dawn

[kerryb]

What a beautiful card and very stylised and of its time.

I have a pile of love letters written by grandmother to my grandfather during their engagement.  I treasure them.

Kerry

[CarolBurns]

These cards are beautiful aren't they? Great find for you Di

My Dad has an album full of cards similar to these which belonged to my grandmother. I have managed to see it once many years ago but never since. It is now packed away in safe keeping more's the pity.

Carol

[Gadget]

They're really lovely aren't they - and so many are lost and gone forever. I wonder if any of our descendants will keep our little bits and pieces or even the odd e-mail from us 

I had quite a few notes and doc in a family bible. They are very precious.

Some of the images of them are now on my website.

Gadget

[kerryb]

When I was 10 I started collecting postcards, mostly cheap holiday type ones but my dad bought me some old ones from an antique shop.  One had been sent from a woman on holiday in Pevensey Bay about 1910 back home to London.  It was really interesting reading about what she had done and the holiday she was having.

I shall have to dig it out because maybe now is the time to investigate who she was.

Kerry

[KathMc]

I don't have any greeting cards, but last summer, not too long before my mom's cousin died, he sent her a box with pictures and some family things. In it were two funeral cards, one was for their gggrandmother, who died in 1880 in Staffordshire, and the other was for her daughter, who died in 1875 at the age of 15, also in Staffordshire. I was shaking as I held them. I have them, along with many others I have since collected (my mother is forever opening drawers and boxes and finding "little" things: the most recent, the funeral card for her great-grandmother, who died in 1888) in a small photo album. they are wonderful genealogical sources and treasures to have.

Kath