I have returned two love letters from the 1960s that had never reached the woman they were intended for and I recently returned a letter written during the Holocaust.
Near to where my grandparents are buried in New York, there is a grave for a baby who was born in 1923 and died in 1924. It sits alone, adjacent to my grandparents' plot. It's really sad because there is no family around her. It affected me more as I grew older, and so at the beginning of 2019 I asked my dad, who is a genealogist, if we could work on finding the family of this baby girl together.
My dad is a genealogist so growing up I had a connection to it, but finding and returning heirlooms to people started in late July of 2021.'We Live In an RV Tiny House With Our 5 Kids' I remember that moment so clearly because I got butterflies. The following weekend, I bought a ton more heirlooms; like postcards and letters. Since then, I haven't stopped.
She lives in Florida now and it was a difficult one to trace because there was no census record for the '60s. But I ended up finding her and her son and niece. I haven't spoken to her directly, but her niece was saying that she was reading the letters and really crying. I can imagine how weird it must have felt to read these letters from 50 or 60 years ago, that she had never received.
We live in a world of reality dating shows and celebrities, but this finds the beauty and the magic in regular people's lives. Every single person and heirloom has an amazing story behind it, whether it's family drama, a love letter that turned into a marriage or even murder.
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