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

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