Today was Day 21, the final day of my 21 Day Family Connections Experiment.
Today going through old family files again, I found more unexpected, interesting family things...below. So more work to be done.
And over the next week, I'll be compiling a linked list of the objects and stories I mentioned here during the Experiment along with any I've written about previously.
This Experiment will carry forward, but on a different schedule. I'm intending to post on Treasure Chest Thursdays till I run out of family 'stuff'.
MY RECENT FINDS
A cute photograph of my favourite grandson...long, long ago.
A cute photograph of a cousin - "Louise 3 yrs". Quite a while ago.
And a very strange Self Portrait (Yes, by me, of me). This is a folder (about 7 1/2 x 14 cm folded) but there's nothing inside. Perhaps I used it as a card for a gift?
Had I been to a modern art show? Or just got a new ruler? I have no memories of this at all. I'll have to store this image in the back of my mind for a bit. I may yet remember. If it's at all lifelike (!), I must be 10-11 or so, as until then I had never had my hair cut.
The Self Portrait was in a file of my father's; I l knew he kept things. After he died, I found old school photos in his wallet and little childhood cards and letters from me in his bedside table, including the 'will' I made when I was eight or so (leaving everything to my brother). And a special letter I had given Dad in 1970.
Keep an eye out. The next 21 Day Connections Experiment will be in October for Family History Month! There are many ways to participate.
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