Ancestry Pt 2.

This is going to be a shorter blog in retrospect that this is a continuance of my previous Ancestory blog. A man named Clay helped my grandfather in the later stages of his life and is even helping me go through everything he owned. This past weekend, I visited my grandpa’s house to find family treasures or pictures. To my surprise, the entire house was filled with random junk and boxes. I knew going through this stuff would be difficult, so my brother came along to help.

We dug through old receipts, mail, and books to find pictures and lost letters to my grandparents. I found multiple birthday and Mother’s Day cards from my dad to his parents. I found out about cousins I have that I didn’t even know existed. I found old driver’s licenses from the 80s, 3-day passes to Disney World from 1983, an old Sam’s Club membership card, and an old Books-A-Million Millionaire’s Club card. It’s pretty cool to go through all these old things that seemed so normal for them back in that time.

My grandpa would leave notes for my grandma on paper towels and she’d keep them. My grandpa also had a car that was not in use, all it needs is new tires and it’ll be right back on the road with me behind the wheel. My grandpa’s house originally burnt down after my grandma passed away and his insurance company paid for all of his clothes and belongings to be cleaned/replaced. They even rebuilt the house for him.

My grandpa had a touch of OCD with the way he listed everything and made sure everything stayed in the spot that he left it. Clay was sweet and brought us some lunch while we continued to sift through everything. It was so interesting to find receipts from the 90s (why did my grandparents even keep those?). There are some pictures of everything I found below.

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