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Subject: [RHEA] Family Heirlooms and genealogy
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 18:45:56 EDT

This from an article from Family History Magazine, Everton Publishers.

Family Heirlooms and MementosIf journals, diaries and letters aren't
available, sometimes other mementos can fill in fascinating details about
daily life. My grandmother, a daughter of Sven Larson by his second wife,
passed along to me her McGuffey's Reader, a childhood schoolbook, published
in America - but entirely in Norwegian. So one small detail of my
grandmother's life is clear: despite being born almost 20 years after her
father's arrival in America, the primary language of her home was still
Norwegian. I also have a Swedish childhood schoolbook of an ancestor in
another branch of the family tree, so I can see what children of that time
were learning in school about their own country and the world. It helps me
imagine what their lives were like, and what they knew and didn't know. And,
of course, there's that high school short story that, fortunately, my aunt
wrote, her high school published, and my mother saved and passed along to me.
Sometimes, a lot of luck is needed for a few small details!For more
information on family heirlooms and genealogy:Where to get help with
questions on copyrighting an ancestor's journal
http://www.everton.com/learn/showcontent.php?id=1355 Cousin Maggie's Dishes
http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/columns/george/4827.asp Historical
Archaeology Enlightens Family Research
http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/ancmag/664.asp Family Tree Magazine -
Free Artifacts & Heirlooms Form
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forms/artifacts/artifact.doc

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