Treasure Chest Thursday - I Know I'm Extremely Lucky

(This post was originally published on June 29, 2011 here.)

Almost every early family reunion clipping!

I know I'm extremely lucky to have these. I'm lucky to have them in my possession and I'm lucky that my husband's paternal grandmother put these together. They are a true treasure. One that I let collect dust for far too long!

A few years ago my mother-in-law passed on to me several family artifacts, including these two books. I was delighted to be given them, but life got in the way of me doing anything with them, so I put them aside and kept telling myself that I would get back to them soon.

Pages and pages of obituaries!

As I mentioned before, I attended my first Scanfest on June 26th and had a blast. I had a box of clippings to scan and got through them all. They were clippings that had fallen out of the pages of these scrapbooks. When I got done with these loose clippings, I was "in the zone" and didn't want to stop. I pulled the scrapbooks out and began paging through them. I found so many important obituaries and wedding announcements that I wanted to kick myself for not getting to them earlier.

And pages of wedding/engagement announcements!

I had to stop eventually to spend time with the hubby and kids (after all, I do this all for them), but I'm going to make sure I put a little time each day to preserving these albums. I could scan them, but the pages are already falling out of the books, so I will most likely use my camera to capture the data. It will be worth it in the end.

I've got less than 2 weeks before heading back to Pennsylvania on vacation with the family (and to do some research...gotta have my fun too!). We'll see how much I can get done. I'll be set for Wedding Wednesday, Military Monday and Sunday's Obituary until about 2015!

Have fun tending those roots! I love this stuff!!!

Military draftees and service members...

...Some never came home