What have you aquired during years of your research

[eadaoin]

Funeral cards were, and still are, common in Ireland ... nowadays people seem to give bookmarks instead with 3/4 photos of the deceased on them.
eadaoin

[TF13]

in northern ireland they are called mass cards, if the person who died was a catholic. close relatives are given cards with the deceased picture.
tony

[genjen]

A reader's ticket, lots of certificates, a death penny, loads of old photos, a room full of files, two tons of paperwork, some distant relatives, eye-strain, new friends and...

.....according to some of my old friends, an anorak!! 

[caribou]

A fascinating hobby, broadband, a new PC, a family tree with 560 pople in it (no, they're not all direct relations - I'm not that good).

I've also dispelled the myth that my surname was Dutch - it's German and my grandad was Adolph.

Bob.

[KathMc]

in northern ireland they are called mass cards, if the person who died was a catholic. close relatives are given cards with the deceased picture.
tony

In the US they are also called funeral cards. Mass cards are those cards gotten from a religious order. They can be for any event. My mother is forever telling me she went to the Sisters of the Precious Blood for this card or that.