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[wildshadowstar]

So, I've started going through the pile of papers and photos grabbed from Grandma Sherer's house. Photos go in one pile to be scanned in at a later date. The papers are sorted based on content. Grandma had saved cards and letters from her children and friends. It's nice to finally see hat my mother's handwriting looks like and get a sense of

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[j_flattermann]

Sorting through all the things, I often find much harder. There are so many memories, good and bad, hidden.
I'm glad that it's my brother who has to do the sorting through my Mum's stuff, even though he has delayed it and not started yet (it's four years since). But I do understand.
We went through some of the paperwork after her funeral because we had to see the solicitor about stuff. And it was very painful for me.

That is why I am not pressurising him to get started. As long as he is OK with living amongst her things, it's fine with me.

[wildshadowstar]

It's both good and bad because I get to see a liitle about my mother and her parents and siblings as they were younger, but the sadness shows up because my mom died when I was only five. I have so few memories of my mother that I'm glad to get the chance to know her through her letters to my grandmother. My maternal didn't drive and she lived a couple of hours drive away from where I frew up so I didn't get to know her as well as I liked. She didn't write us too often in her later years because arthritis bothered her hands. Shortly before my grandmother passed almost two years ago, I started borrowing her photos and scanning into my computer. I got to ask her about some of the people in them, especially my grandfather as he died two months before I was brn. She was usually pretty good about writing on the back who was in the photos and a bit of info, but now that she's gone, I can't ask her about the ones that are blank. From copying her photos, I'm starting to get a bit of the geneology bug and wanting to know about my family