Found a 1920s photo album in my grandma's attic that changed what I knew about our family

I always thought my great-grandparents came straight to Chicago from Italy. The album has pictures of them in New York City for almost two years first, working in a bakery. It's full of notes on the back of the photos in my great-grandma's handwriting. I had no idea about that whole part of their story. Has anyone else found a family item that showed you a part of your history you didn't know?

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kelly_henderson8316d ago

Wow, that's incredible. It's wild how much history gets lost or simplified over time. I found my grandpa's old army duffel bag in a basement corner. It had a bunch of letters from when he was stationed in South Korea, not just Japan like we always heard. Reading them totally changed how I saw his whole life. You feel like a detective putting the real story together.

charles_kim7d ago

Yeah, the South Korea part is interesting. He was probably there during the Korean War, not just stationed like in Japan. That's a big difference.

abbyl4916d ago

Makes you wonder what other family stories are just the cleaned-up, easy version for polite conversation.