Found Documents and Photos
I’m visiting my parents, and I figured while I was here, I would be sure to ask them everything they remember about their parents, aunts and uncles, grandparents and any other family member they can remember. I also took a peek on their bookshelf and found something pretty neat.
My mother’s aunt is interested in genealogy too, and she created a whole book about her mother, Mary Alice Arnoldsen. This book has copies of various civil records – birth certificates, marriage certificates, death certificates and so forth, along with a biography and various memories of Mary Alice written by people who knew her. There is a section on various papers she had in her house, such as correspondence, receipts and contracts for various important life events. A section on historical events and how they would have impacted her life was also included to help put her life in context with history. Finally, there were many photocopies of photos, including some I’d never seen before.
My mom also had many family group sheets and photos.
Aside from being a gold mine of information about my great greatmother and other family members, it reminds me to think about what to do with all of this research. Do I create a scrapbook? Do I focus on one person, or a couple? What do you do with your research?
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