Ooh the lost art of handwriting !!!
I’m grateful that my old photos have the names written on the back and I can read the person’s handwriting !! I have a lot of old photos of my grandparents and great grandparents!
Family history letters or stories - found some in going through some old things of my mothers - these are from my grandmother on my fathers side I didn’t know who as she had passed by time I was born - very interesting reading these life stories dating back to the 1920 forward ! This was right before my father was born !
Another life history on mothers side from long kept family secret that came to light when I was a preteen - I imagine now as adult it was a shock for my mother ( huge shock) as she found out the woman she thought was her mother wasn’t ! My grandfather had been married before and had her and her brother with another woman who died after my mother was born - imagine not telling your kids that for 30 plus years ?? Actually no one said a word !! Not sure how they couldn’t have a clue as my real grandmother was Spanish and both kids mom and her full brother - looked it and second wife and all other kids from second wife did not look Spanish - just saying there’s a clue there !!! My grandfather is not Spanish
but I now have my mother’s letter writing history to her Aunts to get family history! Plus the photos !!!
I myself still considered the 2nd wife my grandmother as I knew no other as far as I was concerned she was and would always be my grandmother! It didn’t change anything for me ! But I can’t imagine how my mother must have felt ! Whole family keeping this secret for decades not right then saying in the letters I’m so glad you found out ! Really !! ???
very weird to me ! I’m just glad I have the stories from the sisters of my mom’s real mother !
Just my opinion but I do wish they would teach handwriting still - years from now kids are not going to be able to read these types of things unless they learn it a lot of family history will be lost . So sad !!