Do you have anything passed down to you from your ancestors?

Nothing beyond my parents and grandparents (on my mother's side).
... I do have several pocket knives and a couple of fixed blade knives that belonged to someone's ancestors though.
And well, a pocket watch from 1944 that belonged to someone who needed to know what time it was, but I never met or can name.
Oh and a rifle that was made in Russia in 1895 (Mosin Naggant M91). But I don't have any Russian in me and besides, it was in a couple of wars and many handled it from a couple of different countries.
Have no children and no idea who might end up with my stuff.
 
Lots of stuff. Pretty plates and other artifacts my Mother has brought home from her travels. Father's tools.
Old family photos, arthritis and heart disease. And, the family home.

Granted, they may not be interested in all this, but it's theirs.
 
I have given most of the items to my kids already, since that is where anything would eventually go. There was old furniture that belonged to my parents and grandparents, old commemorative money from the St. Louis Worlds Fair (my grandmother went) that my daughter now has, and an old wooden Christmas Church that plays a version of Silent Night.

I still have my mom’s old Franciscan Desert Rose, plus pieces i have added over the years, and I am not sure where that will go. I gave my daughter the Franciscan Apple dishes, and she does not want the Desert Rose.
I do not think that either DIL wants it, so I am undecided what to do with it.

My oldest son has the old 30:30 that belonged to my mom and dad, and my daughter has the old .22 that my grandfather gave me. It was old then, so I have no idea exactly when it was made. He was in WW1, but probably had the rifle after that time period.




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fuzzybuddy said:
Do you have anything passed down to you from your ancestors? And are you planning to pass down anything to your descendants?
All I have is a pocket watch my mom gave my dad as a birthday present in 1944. It's going to my younger brother.
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No heirlooms, per se.

I have a cabin up in the Sierras that my dad bought sometime in the 1960s and a tablesaw he bought in the 40s, but these were among the items my oldest brother had to divvie out to me and my siblings after our dad passed away, and we pretty much told him what we'd like to have and then we all came to a consensus. Like, there weren't any arguments or anything. Everyone was cool with Mac getting dad's baseball uniform, Hoover getting his truck, Bonnie getting his watch, etc.

Bonnie has our maternal grandmother's modest little wedding ring, but that's as far back as I can go with ancestors and heirlooms. To my knowledge, they had no wealth. They all lived well, but modestly.
 
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