What is the one family item you wish you had? - just for a bit of fun

[minnie222]

I would love to know what happened to my Nans bible that she showed me with all her family birthdates etc.

(No one will own up where it is - only want the info)

Also, the truth about my Paternal Gt Gt Gt grandfather was he really as bad as everyone  researching imagines.  Was he a convict etc.... where is his birth certificate, where was he really born etc etc etc

Barb

[kizmiaz]

Can I claim things that I have found for other people?

If so, I would like to claim my friends' ancestors possession which I found for her after a long search.

It was the title of King of England!!! Yep, that'll do for me!

Glen

[genjen]

I have to admit to being green with envy at my partner's sister being the owner of a diary written by their great grandfather whilst on a sea voyage in the late 1800s. I wouldn't mind but she isn't remotely interested in family history!

Why didn't my sea-faring ancestors keep diaries and leave them all to me?

Jen

[ankerdine]

Oh this topic is both so amusing and, at times, a little sad. Good idea though.

I sympathise with everyone who would like to see or own effects in which the current owners are completely disinterested. I too would like to search a couple of attics in homes once belonging to the family just to satisfy myself nothing of mention remains.

What happened to those beautiful (some may disagree) coloured glass urns/vases standing at each end of my grandmother's mantlepiece, which were absolutely dripping with diamond-shaped glass crystals? They stood about 18"-24" high.

.....and the canary in the cage belonging to my grandfather, a coal miner on the Staffordshire coalfield?

I could go on but won't.

Judy

[LoneyBones]

Can I have another wish??
I too would like a ship's log,  for the lady Blackwood while John Cooper was captain.
I know one existed but have only ever seen an abbreviated transcript of it. He took his wife with him and at least three of their children were born whilst on whaling voyages.
Leonie.

[WHS1899]

I'd like the photo of my 2x great grandfather Thomas Todd. Thomas was Scottish and the photo was of him wearing a kilt etc and holding a crook. Last seen by my mum and her sister when they lived at home. I think my Nan had a good throwing out session when she married for the second time......such a pity.

[Ninatoo]

Not to be repetative, but the box of photos my granny showed me when I was little.  It just disappeared, and since my Dad had no siblings, I would like to know what happened to them.

[kooky]

I would love to know where my paternal gt gr father sailed. There is no trace of him at Kew.
On his marriage July 1874  he was John Edward Boshell, mate.
On the birth cert. of his dau. Annie, Feb 14 1879 he was 'Master of a vessel'
At the birth of dau. Susan 1882 he was 'sailor'.
On the death cert. of Kathleen Dec. 1927 age 42 she was dau. of John Edward Boshell, deceased, a Captain, Merchant service.

His service record is what I would most like to have!
Kooky 

[ladybird]

Talking of attics 
My mum remembered her father putting a box full of family papers up in the attic for safe keeping, this would have been 60-70 years ago...of course he and Nana are long gone and now so is my Mum.
I did write to the owner of the house in Kingston a couple of years ago...just on the off chance you know :-( Wishful thinking.
But she said the house had been re-roofed before they bought it and there was nothing up there now. Probably went in a skip years ago
Sylvia