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Found out my great-grandpa's pocket watch was a wedding gift from a man he saved in WWI
I was going through his old letters in a trunk and found a thank you note dated 1919 from a French soldier. Has anyone else found a story hidden in old family papers?
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eric935mo ago
That's a really cool piece of history to find. My family's old papers just revealed my great-uncle owed money to half the town. Found a whole stack of IOUs. Guess some family stories are more about unpaid debts than wartime heroics.
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the_nancy4mo ago
Laughing at myself here because my family's "historic documents" turned out to be a box full of receipts from my grandpa's failed attempt at selling homemade pickles in 1979. Turns out he owed the whole block a lot of money AND a lot of refunds for jars that went bad. Guess some legacies are just about fermented vegetables and bad business decisions, you know?
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wilson.jesse5mo ago
That's such an amazing find! My grandma had a locket that turned out to be from her brother, who gave it to her before he shipped out. We never knew the story until we read his old diary. It's wild what history is just sitting in boxes.
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