Reply #2: It's really cool finding those odd bits and pieces of personal stuff

[csziggy]

My family saves loads of stuff. Right now I am working my way through some boxes of family material collected by my Mom and my oldest sister. There are clippings of the obituaries of relatives I don't have in my family files - I think they are cousins of my great grandmother - the scrapbook my mother's mother kept with all Mom's report cards, clippings of school events and all the stuff Mom kept from her senior year (she was proud of that year since she was valedictorian), letters that Dad's Mom wrote home her first year in college, letters from my father's father's Welsh cousins, and tons of other cool stuff.

Someday I hope to put this together into some books about the various branches of the family, but right now I am just trying to get it all scanned and organized.