There aren't really many "keepers" in my family. My paternal grandmother keeps silly things, but not much of any real sentimental value. My maternal grandparents were keepers, but my mom and my aunt are both pitchers and over the years they have gotten rid of everything except a few pieces of furniture that have been in the family for a while and the family photo albums (although there is still an old coloring book in the cabinet that my sister and I colored in when we were kids). I'm definitely a keeper though and have some interesting things like scraps of the wallpaper that was in my great-grandfather's homestead from the time he bought it from his uncle in 1943 until he moved out in 1998. I also went to where the house was (they let the fire department burn it down as an exercise) and gathered a bunch of the old square nails and picked up a few of the old handmade bricks. I'm a packrat with general stuff too, whoever has to clean out my house after I croak isn't going to like me very much :) > Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:08:45 -0500 > From: "Karen Zach" > <karen.zach@sbcglobal.net> > Subject: [InMontgo] Discussion topic > To: <INMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com> > > Suzy A and I were talking about how our families did/did > not keep things and what type of things they kept. She told > me a darling story about her grandpa' > "My grandmother used to send Grandpa out w/things for > the burn barrel. Then he'd sneak in the back door of > the garage and store them in the garage loft. That's > where most of the family things, esp. HIS family things > were" > > Now, both of my grandmother's kept things -- REAL > keepers - my Italian grandmother kept lots of Italian > memories I have today and pictures of her family, all > marked. She also kept a book every years of how much she > spent and what she spent it on -- they're so interesting > to read and compare the prices. My other grandmother kept > literally everything -every paper every everything. A > person could learn US history via her clippings - Lindbergh > baby, all kinds of murders, she had a touch of the macrabe > in her I think. I thank her actually for my interest in > genealogy (although my other grandmother contributed to that > as well as she'd mesmerize us on her front porch nightly > telling tales of the old country) as I loved reading the old > obits, deeds, etc (although she didn't write on ANYTHING > to tell me who they were when they were but the snoop I am I > figured it out:). Now, my mom, her daughter, threw > absolutely EVERYTHING away. I have nothing from my > childhood, not a paper, a ! > letter, a certificate, nothing. I only have > grandmother's things as my aunt gave them to me not long > before she died. So, who kept your stuff, how did you get > it, etc. HOpefully, this will be a fun, lively discussion > on Montgomery listserve :) Let's hear it gang!

Oh, how awesome to have even a little "piece" of your great grandather's house (have you framed it or scrapbooked it to perserve it in some way?) -- for years not even sure if I have it -- I had a piece of my great grandparents' banister but never had a way to do anything with it and we may have finally scrapped it (not as in scrapbooking but ahhh, I hate to breath this - pitched it forever gone to its eternal rest) KZ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lena C." <gostraka@yahoo.com> To: <inmontgo@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 4:00 PM Subject: Re: [InMontgo] Discussion topic > There aren't really many "keepers" in my family. My paternal grandmother > keeps silly things, but not much of any real sentimental value. My > maternal grandparents were keepers, but my mom and my aunt are both > pitchers and over the years they have gotten rid of everything except a > few pieces of furniture that have been in the family for a while and the > family photo albums (although there is still an old coloring book in the > cabinet that my sister and I colored in when we were kids). I'm definitely > a keeper though and have some interesting things like scraps of the > wallpaper that was in my great-grandfather's homestead from the time he > bought it from his uncle in 1943 until he moved out in 1998. I also went > to where the house was (they let the fire department burn it down as an > exercise) and gathered a bunch of the old square nails and picked up a few > of the old handmade bricks. I'm a packrat with general stuff too, whoever > has to clean out my house after I > croak isn't going to like me very much :) > >> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:08:45 -0500 >> From: "Karen Zach" >> <karen.zach@sbcglobal.net> >> Subject: [InMontgo] Discussion topic >> To: <INMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com> >> >> Suzy A and I were talking about how our families did/did >> not keep things and what type of things they kept. She told >> me a darling story about her grandpa' >> "My grandmother used to send Grandpa out w/things for >> the burn barrel. Then he'd sneak in the back door of >> the garage and store them in the garage loft. That's >> where most of the family things, esp. HIS family things >> were" >> >> Now, both of my grandmother's kept things -- REAL >> keepers - my Italian grandmother kept lots of Italian >> memories I have today and pictures of her family, all >> marked. She also kept a book every years of how much she >> spent and what she spent it on -- they're so interesting >> to read and compare the prices. My other grandmother kept >> literally everything -every paper every everything. A >> person could learn US history via her clippings - Lindbergh >> baby, all kinds of murders, she had a touch of the macrabe >> in her I think. I thank her actually for my interest in >> genealogy (although my other grandmother contributed to that >> as well as she'd mesmerize us on her front porch nightly >> telling tales of the old country) as I loved reading the old >> obits, deeds, etc (although she didn't write on ANYTHING >> to tell me who they were when they were but the snoop I am I >> figured it out:). Now, my mom, her daughter, threw >> absolutely EVERYTHING away. I have nothing from my >> childhood, not a paper, a ! >> letter, a certificate, nothing. I only have >> grandmother's things as my aunt gave them to me not long >> before she died. So, who kept your stuff, how did you get >> it, etc. HOpefully, this will be a fun, lively discussion >> on Montgomery listserve :) Let's hear it gang! > > > > > http://ingenweb.org/inmontgomery/ > > List Manager - inmontgo-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INMONTGO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message