Christmas just came early!

[Gaille]

Dads hunting for some negative books he needs for his railway history forum and he just pulled out a box of old books & things from my grandads belongings ........... Grandad died in 1988 & the box has been on the top of a cupboard forgotten about by dad - and not known about by me (Or I would have been in it YEARS ago!)

Blimey!!!! Christmas just came early for me when he did!

Its FULL of old family photos going back generations! and even better .......... loads have names on them!

I even found a wedding invitation addressed to my gt-grandad from his son - in australia I now have names & dates of his daughter - lol which is NOT ann as we always belived, its Deborah Ann!

I cant wait to get into the boxes now I only had a glance thru them and they were brilliant!

Gaille

[groom]

That's fantastic you are so lucky. When my mother died we found a box of old photos, but none had names on and there is now no one who can identify them! Very frustrating.

Jan

[yvette2]

OH WOW that is really amazing, i too would have been besides myself, i bet you sat on the floor, looking through it all. I often think of my Grandad, and wish i had talked to him about 'his' family, I just was not interested back then now i am struggling with his family

have fun

yvette

[matt94]

You are really lucky!

Yvette, I wish I wasn't as young as I was! I am the youngest of all my (100+) cousins and the only one who has actually taken an interest! My grandfather's family was huge, but he died when I was six years old and now have no one to ask about anything. I so wish I was born twenty years before I was! I would have asked so many questions! Most of the photos were burned upon his death though  and I wish I had the forethought to stop them!!!

Matt

[yvette2]

hello Matt      I was reading your other post earlier today, about "age"  and was so dissapointed for you 
Your are a unique 16? year old, and your Grandfather will be proud of you doing research into his family. (He'll know  )
And the more you research the more he will feel close to you, I promise, I do feel my grandad is helping me....ha ha not that I am getting very far, I am stuck on a marriage for his grandparents.....it'sll come though.
How can family be so thoughless, as to burtn photographs, even if they didnt want them, someone else may do.
You never know Matt, you may find some new cousins that will have photo's for you.   I have found 4 new cousins from research my tree's, spread as far as Australia, and they have given me photo's 

good luck Matt 

Yvette

[matt94]

Yvette - I'm not even 16 yet  I am not allowed to state my actual age but yes, I'm under 16.

I think that I'm the only one that has some photo's at all; but some people I can't name. Unfortunately, my father was the fifth of eleven and he didn't marry my mother until he was thirty - and I was born when he was 38 so his parents, if they were alive today, would be 88 and 85. My cousins were having children even before I was born and I hate being the youngest.

I feel close to my great-great aunts, weirdly, because I have photos of them and know the ins-and outs of their marriages. Apparently my grandfather was a bit 'naughty' bedroom-wise!!!

Matt

[yvette2]

Yes Matt, I do know your age 

good, at least you have some photo's.....don't hate being the youngest, all your cousins are busy busy being mums and dads etc etc  and you are young and keen to research your family trees, don't let anybody put you off Matt 

oooh naught grandfather......theres one in most cupboards!!!!!

Yvette 

[matt94]

Ah, yes, parenthood still to come in the next 10/15 years! After uni!

Lol

Matt

[Ninatoo]

Wait, if Grandad died in 1988 and Gaille was six years old then....isn't her age more like 26-27 now?

Even so, I wish I had started this at that age!  I would have been able to visit my ancestors' graves/homes/etc since I was visiting Scotland then.

Nina