I'm not too polite, tell me what and who to ask for and I will call her. It should be in the archives or better the family. BTW what are Confederate Dollars worth? (monetarily now) delilah ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shirley Tomlin" <satomlin07@yahoo.com> To: <ALMACON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 8:08 PM Subject: Re: [ALMacon] confederate dollars etc. > Does she have children that you might get interested? > > Polly <paburnell@comcast.net> wrote:Shirly, I believe the same...that the "worthless" money is a treasure! But > unfortunately it (and a lot of other precious letters, maps, deeds, & god > knows what) are in the possession of my mother's first cousin who lives in > Montgomery, is in her 80s, and appears to have Zero interrest in genealogy! > I am too polite to ask this woman, who is a stranger to me, to send me all > this stuff. I don't care about the dollar value of the Confederate money, > and in fact think it should be donated to a museum, but it is frustrating to > me and my mother that all these clues to this ancestry/history are in a > closet! We live in the North and can't easily peruse it at her house. I > have a theory, from what coorespondence I have had with her about family, > that the CW and the "prewar glory" that all got lost, is a sore topic; > something to "get over".....but it's hard to say; there are just lots of > people sitting on treasures that people like us, who love digging into the > past, would value more than gold......frustrating!!! > > Polly > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >