Heritage Album

Do you have any special family heirlooms that mean the world to you ?

Not just expensive ones but even just trinkets ? Have a great Eve . D :)

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1. yes a few, my grandpa's rosary, my childhood bear, and countless others
2. i have this eskimo china doll that my grandma got me when i was four
3. A golden Cake desk suplture. Great-great-grandma's old Cake recipe The diamond Cake brooch pin
4. I have a blanket my Grandma knitted. And a dish towel she embroidered for every day of the week:) She was the wisest women I ever knew I miss her very much!
5. elvis plates
6. An edelweiss in a necklace from Switzerland, it was my grandma's from her Swiss friend, it's about 80 years old
7. i have a rocking chair my grand daddy gave me. (he has passed away so the chair is really special.) and my great aunt who recently died, has all this jewelry some expensive some not. and she has so much it could fill up 3 dinning room tables, the big ones. she left it to our whole family. she also has notes from the presidents wife but i cant remember which president. and pictures from that ball that the president has when hes elected. lots of old old stuff from like 1905!! :)
8. I have an onyx ring from my great-grandmother. I also have her cedar hope chest full of mementos (newspaper clippings, blankets, photos, my great-grandfathers purple heart, etc)
9. YES ZZID! I sure do..... My Grandmothers' (Both sides) teapots (OLD)- Carnival glass- Depression Glassware- My Grandfather (Maternal) WWI Memorabilia- Also signed with President's (Authentic) papers when Gpa was Postmaster General in the 1920's. Also have old Family pics- some dating back 200 years (I do Genealogy). Paternal Grandfather- All kinds of old Farm Tools- Very Old picture of his Grandmother, dating past the Civil War era....Lots of things.....
10. Grand parents dining room table and chairs over 100 years old
11. my grandfathers tie tacs. Some of his ties. When my parents pass (Lord willing not for a while) i will get dads guns that he had when he was a kid. My dad keeps everything. Its funny cuz his older brother and my cuz were visiting not long ago, and she wanted something of her dads. My uncle asked my dad about them and dad told him that he could have them if he wanted them. My cuz and i had a nice little talk. She said her dad keeps nothing, and i said my dad throws away nothing. LOL
12. I have a china cabinet that belonged to my great grandmother that she got when she got married around 1902. I have some other antiques but they are not family heirlooms.
13. I have the child Jesus my favorite Uncle Frank gave to me, oh it is so beautiful and means the world to me. It is over 100 yrs old, but it means most because it came from him and I love my uncle with all my heart!
14. I do Dizz. My grandparents wine glasses and as silly as it maybe to others I have 2 pictures that my grandmother embroidered and had on her wall for years. I remember her making them on a camping trip we took. Miss them dearly.... Hugs Dizz The bug = )
15. Oh yes many
16. Not really. People mean more to me than things. Most things I had of value I have given away or sold to keep us going financially.
17. Yes, I have my grandmothers banged up baby grand piano that takes up all of my little living room and my mother's dishes. Not worth much, but the world to me... dear connections to my family who has passed on.
18. When I was very young, I made a little kind of "purse" for my Mother. When she first cut my LONG hair, she put some of it in that purse, and when I grew up, she gave it to me. Every time I see it, I think of how wonderful she was and still is to me. But now she has Alzheimer's disease and I can't even see her or talk to her. TEARS, TEARS, AND MORE TEARS! Have a GREAT Wednesday my dear friend!