Inherited From Ancestors

[TheOtherHalf]

My husband has lots of lovely items passed down from his ancestors. Some beautifully engraved silver and pottery included. Lots of jewellery which we dont know is worth anything or just costume jewellery, photo and documents etc
Have any of you had anything passed down to you, either physically, financially, or material wise

[EvianBaby]

My Dads motorbike. He isn't actually dead but he's not really able to use it anymore and as he doesn't have anything else he's keeping it for me. I keep telling him to flog it, I can't even ride a motorbike.

[society]

I worked hard and still working hard for everything I have. I'm not so lucky.

[ummmm]

I have my granddads impatience and temper.

[gness]

My red hair. I have a few odds and ends of china etc. but was glad to be the one who got the red hair.

[society]

I have a large black mole on my right shoulder that I got from my dad. He had it same shoulder, same spot and same size. Talk about identical.

[China Doll]

Physically not much, my sisters and I fortunately managed to avoid the massive conk that's on my mums side, and apparently I don't look much like my mum or my dad particularly (depends who you ask really); I've the same sense of humour as my dad buy baby sister (and her son actually) seem to have more of his 'cheerful and sunny' disposition! I've got some bits and bobs of jewellery from when my nan died but nothing valuable.

[mccfluff]

i have some jewellery, i don;t like to think about it as i have quite a bit to come but i don;t want it :-(

[Old_Geezer]

Money mainly. Not that any of them were vastly wealthy, but it was nice to be thought of in the will.

[ummmm]

I have my nans encyclopaedias.

[EvianBaby]

My Dad also has a huge set of encyclopaedias that he's saving for the Grandkids. :)

[chaptazbru]

I've got lots of things of my dear old Gran's which I will treasure forever and are priceless to me.

[TheOtherHalf]

do people still read those Ummmmm? My sister keeps saying I have my lovely late mums daft sense of humour. I didnt realise I had. Im the only one of all the family who takes after my late Dad with dark hair. All others were born blonde, after my mum who was a natural blonde, but my dad had a very black head of hair, and I was born with it too

[society]

Do people still use dictionaries and encyclopedias books anymore? Everyone seem to be googling everything now.

[EvianBaby]

We used to love sitting on the floor looking through the encycs. Especially the one that had all the layered pages of the human body.

I was actually thinking about my Grandparents last night and how I've no idea what happened to any of their belongings. I know none of my family was offered anything. I don't mean significant items but my Grandma has the most beautiful set of hair brushes. I'd love to see them again.

[AlwaysConfused]

My granddads war medals are up in the attic, but i treasure dearly. My nan (still alive and kicking) gave me her recipe cards which she used to collect religiously. I used to love sorting through them as a child, putting them in numerical or categorical order, and going out to get the ingredients of the cakes I wanted to make. I haven't really used the recipes since I've had them, but I love them.

My granddad left me land in Scotland in his will, he loved the place (I've never been). I have looked for years, I still cannot find what I done with the deeds, so I could be sitting on a bus stop, or a fortune, I have no idea.

My dad has a mole (or beauty spot, as my mum calls it) on his right cheek. Both me and sis have one in the same place! I have no patience, which comes from my mum.

[ummmm]

I don't read them. I just keep them. They were hers and she's special. She used to read them to us when we were little. It was 'pick a subject, any subject' she never ran out of patience.

I inherited my dads eyes and hair but I look like my mum. My sister inherited my mums eyes and hair but looks like my dad.

My kids inherited my eyes :-( They have lovely blues eyes but they are also blind in one eye.

[Barmaid]

How odd, when I was driving home I was thinking about some of the bits and pieces I have and was thinking "I'll start an heirlooms thread".

I personally don't have much other than some jewellery from my grandmother and my great aunt (not worth anything, but pretty trinkets).

However, my mother has some postcards sent by and to her family dating from about 1900 to 1918, poetry written by my great great uncle in the tenches before 1917 (must be, he was killed then); her great great grandfather's horse ailments book; and some silver from 1830 which we think was left to my grandfather by his father in law and comes from his great great great grandfather.

[lady-janine]

i've got my mother's and aunts and uncles and grandparents work ethics. and their capacity for alcohol.

[atalanta]

My much-loved aunt was determined to leave me in her will a huge pot on a stand. It was worth quite a lot of money, having been exhibited in the Great Exhibition, but it was totally hideous, covered in purple and green excrescences with curly-swirly bits sticking out, and a wide stand which you couldn't help falling over. I told her to sell it, use the money to buy double glazing so she could be warm, and just leave me a rather pretty painting of daffodils. Which she did, thank goodness.

[Prudie]

I inherited a presentation table full of silver cutlery I never use and other silver from my great grandparents (ie passed down). My mother left me all her jewellery but it sits in a box, she had a passion for knuckleduster size rings. Oh and pearls, does anyone wear pearls these days?