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miss_grimwood) wrote2024-12-26 03:59 pm
miss_grimwood) wrote2024-12-26 03:59 pm
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Hello all! I hope the holidays are going as well as they can for everyone. My maternal grandparents were away this christmas so we had my paternal grandparents and their little dog for dinner this year. I'm not sure how we got on the topic but I ended up going on our ancestry family tree to confirm a family member's birth year and ended up being able to show my nana a picture of her grandad who she'd never seen on a photo (or in real life) before. He was born in 1871! a hundred years before her eldest son was born. It was such a nice moment and it made me thankful I got into ancestry over lockdown. I'd forgotten all the little things I'd managed to find. I also had her maternal grandmother's birth certificate from around the same time.
I'm going to go around to their house in the new year and go through some old photos and things to see if we can add more people to the tree or put some faces to the names. My nana is getting older now and she can get confused, so it will be nice to go through the memories together and try and preserve as much as we can.
The nerdy little historian in me really loves the ancestry hobby, especially because my grandmothers have all sorts stored away that I get to look at - on my mum's side my granny has a lot of paperwork, official documents on hundred year old paper, and on my dad's side we have a lot of bibles that were given as gifts that all ended up passed down to my nana, and books with handwritten dedications to children.
I'm going to go around to their house in the new year and go through some old photos and things to see if we can add more people to the tree or put some faces to the names. My nana is getting older now and she can get confused, so it will be nice to go through the memories together and try and preserve as much as we can.
The nerdy little historian in me really loves the ancestry hobby, especially because my grandmothers have all sorts stored away that I get to look at - on my mum's side my granny has a lot of paperwork, official documents on hundred year old paper, and on my dad's side we have a lot of bibles that were given as gifts that all ended up passed down to my nana, and books with handwritten dedications to children.