Comments | aadroma: Cleaning House: Old Photos

aadroma

Cleaning House: Old Photos

Jul 25, 2011 13:08

So much for having the estate sale in July -- Mother's house is still a pit, in part because I can only get out there so often. Not August seems slightly more reasonable, but even then it might not be feasible. We keep finding some fascinating and bizarre things -- for some reason we have books in Japanese from the 1920s in my mother's house (why ( Read more... )

mom's house, history, family, ancestry

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gryphons_hole July 25 2011, 22:37:39 UTC

Re: throwing stars...

Wait until you uncover the hidden documents that reveal your mother's secret life as a ninja assassin...

aadroma July 27 2011, 03:09:05 UTC

Trust me, I wouldn't be surprised ... -_-

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aadroma July 27 2011, 03:08:44 UTC

My dad's family has kept fairly good tabs on their family history up to a point. The fun will be finding ANYTHING about my mother's family, which brings up a great point: it seems that all of the stuff I'm finding is stuff from my DAD'S family, NOT my mother's. Why? NO CLUE.

Yeah, Adolf was Swedish, but at that time it was a fairly innocent name and wasn't necessarily indicative of any particular nationality.

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aadroma July 27 2011, 03:05:07 UTC

There actually are a few more; I'll have to scan them in the next coming days.

I agree, they're pretty awesome. I had no idea my family had any of this laying about!