Cash in the Attic

[purplekat]

There's a lady on Cash in the Attic just now, (BBC1), raising money for her family history research, she's trying to raise £500.

[Finley 1]

So the trick is  sell your 'dead rellies stuff'  to finance researching their history... great idea...

xin

[purplekat]

      

She got £1310 from the auction and was filmed at a family history fair at Olympia, she said she was going to spend the rest of the money on certificates, renewing subscriptions and going to Northhampton and Edinburgh.

I bet we could all cut a deep hole in £1310 on our reseach  :  

[dusty_streets]

When my maternal & paternal grandparents died all the photos & personal documents went 'missing'. It's one of my daydreams that someone 'finds' them in their attic - or old shed etc & they give them to me to keepsake.
Maybe one day.........

[Finley 1]

That is so awful... but what is worse .. is when one member of the family who may just be an inlaw..(no disrespect) hides away the family photos and letters just for their offspring... trouble is that the offspring may not give a tinkers cuss about family...     ah well

xin

[ainsley]

When my father died in 1994, my cousins decided to raid my mums photo albums! So any photo's my mum had of my dad mysteriously disappeared, wouldnt care but the cousins where from my mothers side.
I only realised how important these photo's of him would be to me when i started to research my family.

Of course knowone took these photo's from the album

ainsley

[purplekat]

It's one of my daydreams that someone 'finds' them in their attic - or old shed etc & they give them to me to keepsake

Maybe it will come true one day - through a lucky chance meeting with a stranger in a library which led to one thing then another and another, (nothing to do with the internet),  I was able to make contact with a fourth cousin living only a couple of hours away from me who has very kindly lent me very old family photos of my grandfathers family, who we never new including photos of my g grandfather and gg grandmother and lots of other rellies.  It was something I dreamed of but never would believed could happen the way it did so don't give up, you never know 

[kooky]

I know that the few photos I have of my father's family are all that exist. He took them with him when he married my mother. The others, and all mementos,grandfather's hand made tools and carpentry, were all destroyed by my grandmother after my grandfather's death.
My father used to get very upset about it. He would be amazed, were he still here, to see what I have managed to unearth about them. Tho my grandfather is still causing a problem, I can't find him in 1901.
Kooky

[dusty_streets]

don't give up, you never know 

When I'm in the library or record office my mind may be on what I'm doing but my ears are tuned into my family names