Family Heirlooms – 52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy
Week 6 – Family Heirlooms: For which family heirloom are you most thankful? How did you acquire this treasure and what does it mean to you and your family? We have a few family heirlooms for which we are very grateful. The photo above for example is of some of the Daw pioneers: namely William Doig Duncan and Rose (nee Gorrian) with their daughter Alice Cecilia Hinde (my husband's great grandmother). We also have the family bible as pictured above. I really treasure a scrap book that my father kept of our trip overseas when I was very young as it contains beautiful pen and ink drawings of the places we visited and all the usual ephemera such as menus, napkins, and cabin baggage tickets - not to mention photos... Beautiful no? But the heirloom I treasure the most and that I can't pick up and run out the door with in the event of a fire is my mother's desk. You can barely see the poor thing as it groans under the weight of ...