finding lost treasures

[tinav40]

I was reading a post yesterday on what item belonging to our ancestors that we would most like to have. I can think of a few.
Then I was thinking about the weekend and my wander around my local antique shop. There are boxes and boxes of old photos.
 All those people who would dearly love to see what great grandma looked like and she is sadly probably gathering dust in a junk shop somewhere.
I often have a look just in-case I see great granddad staring back at me. Of course I have no idea what he looked like but I live in hope.
Has anyone ever stumbled across photos of family by accident. Or any other family treasures for that matter.
 

[Ros Fornaro]

Hi Tina,

I had a photo of my grandmother taken as a young mother in Scotland sent to me in Western Australia from a cousin in Canada.

Always live in hope.  There must be millions of photos in cupboards and attics around the world.

Ros

[PrueM]

I get so sad when I see all those photos in the antique shops    Sometimes I buy them just to give them a home!

The best, most unexpected family thing I've come across is an indenture on parchment, two large pages long (mostly long-winded legalese  ) relating to one of my 5xgreat-grandmother, her son my 4xg-grandfather and some properties she owned in Kent.  The indenture has their signatures attached, as well as those of members of my 4x-g-grandfather's wife's family.

The best thing about all this is that the document was found by another rootschatter for sale on an internet site!  She alerted me to it, knowing I was researching the family, and I bought it.  It cost me alot, but is worth every penny