Inspired By Mommanerd

Mommanerd posted about her grandmother and the life she'd had before... before kids, before husband.

I thought someone might be interested in my own delving into family history.

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I'm going through the boxes of papers and photos we pulled out of my great-aunt's house when we had to put her in a nursing home. Somehow I seem to have been designated family historian, much as she had been.

I've found everything from a Nazi banner that either my grandfather or great-uncle brought back from their tours, to plays my grandfather's siblings wrote in the 19-teen's to entertain themselves, to the books another great-uncle used to keep track of fixing his car (and when it was clear enough to put the sleigh away and pull out the buggy) and how much honey he sold.

That was in the one box I've managed to get through. I can't can't wait to see what's hidden in the other 10.

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