Cash in the Attic

[purplekat]

Yes, the lady in the library heard me mentioning my family name when talking to my husband, turned out that her mother had lived next door to my grandfather's cousins 

I know a lady who has the similar problem to you ainsley, in that a family member has her mother's photos and memorabelia in the loft whenever she asks to see it she is fobbed off

[ladybird]

For years my old Mum carried round a tinful of her mother's family records, even when we emigrated, BMD's et al. They are my prize possessions
It wasn't until 10 years ago when I started this obsession that she told me her father's family papers had been left in the attic when Nana died and the family cleared the house.
Frantic snail mail letters to the occuper of the house revealed that the house had been re-roofed a few year before the present owners bought it and there was nothing there now (she checked for me)
Probably taking up space in some landfill in Surrey now