Genealogy Forum UK

On Tuesday I was browsing in an antique shop in Worcester, when I came across a Holy Bible.
Inscribed inside was this --Samuel and Anne Jones ,Colley Gate ,Cradley . Boughtjune 1st. 1867.

There was another Bible there as well ,this time inscribed with the name May Willetts 1910,Trinity School,Old Hill.I think this may have been a school prize.I had looked at it because I thought it may have belonged to a member of my family ,Unfortunately I was wrong.

Why do people get rid of these family treasures?
Maybe through a house clearance.

Pat

Dont know if its of interest to anyone ,but found on roots chat
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.ph ... .html,dont

What a shame Pat they have just been thrown out, bet they would mean a lot to someone Just shows what you can find if you look. I have a favourite Book shop in Tewkesbury, love going there and having a mooch around. Linell.

niikib wrote:Dont know if its of interest to anyone ,but found on roots chat
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.ph ... .html,dont

Thanks Niki have merged posts and will move to Miscellaneous

I lost quite a lot of my Black Country grandparents' papers when my grandmother died. I was living a long way away and had no money so the solicitors (who were the executors) dealt with it all, selling everything and distributing the money as directed in her will. A few months later I received a packet of them in the post from a very kind lady who had bought some of them at auction and then discovered that there was a living descendant. I returned most of them as, at the time, I was living a very peripatetic life and had no place to keep such things. I did keep a handful of letters from my father to his parents as I had nothing of his (he died when I was 4 and my mother remarried and kept virtually nothing) but I will always be grateful for the kind thoughts of that lady. Unfortunately, now that I've taken up genealogy and have the space for such ephemera, I find I no longer have her address.

My husband collects letters mainly from the second world war. When i read them it always upsets me .they are always written with so much love , I find it hard that to understand why families dispose of them. When we have read them I tie them in ribbon,and place them in a special box.