Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:
It's Saturday Night again -
Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):
1) Lorine Mcginnis Schulze on her Olive Tree Genealogy blog asked this question several weeks ago in http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/10/what-is-your-oldest-ancestral-item.html.
2) So have at it - what is the oldest ancestral item in your collection of artifacts and stuff?
3) Tell us all about it in a blog post of your own, in comments on this blog post, or in a post on Facebook. Be sure to link to them in a comment on this blog post.
Thank you to Lorine for the idea and to Linda S. for suggesting it.
Here's mine:
* I have a spoon collection with many spoons, including one silver spoon stamped with "1694" on it, but I can't find it in my piles of stuff.
* I have a small rocking chair in the living room that was probably made by my great-grandfather Henry Austin Carringer, who was a carpenter, in the 1880s or 1890s.
* I have an end table that was bequeathed to me by my father's sister, Geraldine (Seaver) Remley in 2007. She said it belonged to her great-grandmother, Sophia (Newton) Hildreth (1834-1923).
* I have a spoon holder with spoons with initials of Knapp women from the mid-1800s handed down from my Auble grandmother.
* I have two small encased photos of the Devier J. Smith family from the 1870 time frame.
* I have a Union Case with ambrotype photos of Isaac and Lucretia (Smith) Seaver from the 1860s.
* I have framed photographs of the Richmond family from the 1880-1900 time frame.
* I have a scrapbook and other published books from the 1880-1910 time frame with photos and clippings pasted into them, handed down from my Carringer and Smith ancestors.
* I have published books from the 1860 to 1890 time frame, including two McGuffey readers, handed down through the Carringer and Kemp lines.
I'm sure I've forgotten some things. Then there is our stuff from my parents family and my family.
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