Our final workshop of 2022 was a roundtable session with members sharing a family keepsake or a favorite genealogical discovery. We enjoyed the great variety of examples!
Susan: a mystery photo from her father's side of the family that had always hung in their home.
Nancy: postcards from Lille, France -- photos from a Nova Scotia reunion, including family quilts -- a bombshell from the trenches near Lille.
Maureen: an ornament made from a tea cozy (none of us could guess) passed down from a grandmother who lived in Bradenton, FL.
Mary Anne: an oval photo that hung in the bathroom -- going to see "Aunt Martha."
Laurie: cemetery photos taken in the 1990s from a cemetery no longer accessible to the public.
Jim: two ancestral home visits -- one to Silver Cliff, CO to visit a great grandfather's brick house; another to New Philadelphia, OH, a town built by an ancestral couple, the Nicelys.
Royal: tracing family migrations and a tombstone photo that included a covered wagon and oxen depicting the trek west.
Beth: Higginson mementos from the Hawkesbury area -- buildings constructed by an ancestor, including a round barn, a church and an octagonal house.
Dick: the Civil War diary written by his g.g. grandfather Peter DeCramer.
Annie: her copy of the 1889 Waupaca County plat book.
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