Cleaning up the Mess.

I almost went to sleep without posting today, which would have been ok, if it wasn’t for the fact that the blog keeps my project organized.  Today organization was the theme.  I went through almost all of the material and divided it into boxes and folders.  Almost all the letters have been placed in folders depending on whom they were for or who wrote them.  The process was slightly horrifying because there were letter everywhere but it is looking ok now….



before!

Before!!

and after!

 

This process took legitimately all day.  Since I’m still sick (now actually feeling worse than I did during the day)  I got to spend the day inside with the letters, documents, pictures, notebooks, journals, etc.   Among  the really old letters I found some pictures from when my mom was little, some notes she wrote to her dad, and some card she wrote to her parents.  I am saving those to take back to her!

At the same time I found my grandmother’s report cards from school in Germany (early 30s) and some more of her notebooks.  I also found another picture of her class.  In that same stack, I found my grandmother’s bother’s birth certificate, and letters that her aunt Erna wrote with her husband Michael in the 1920’s.

Since I didn’t do any reading today, there isn’t much interesting stuff to tell, but I hope the pictures tell it all!

I also forgot to write about the locked box we found. Well .... we found a locked box!  We didn't have a key, so my dad suggested from the U.S. to use a saw... so we did, and as I had guessed, it contained more letters, and journals.  But one journal was from Germany when she was about 10 years old! It had notes from her friends and her parents.  I am going to get her friend to help me read it!  There were tons of letters and the diaries from the year she left Germany, so they should be very helpful!







Oma's father and a note he wrote to her

And After!!!