I won the other of the two eBay family history items this morning. It's a picture postcard from 1910 showing at least one of my ancestors in front of the hotel they ran in Pennsylvania. I can't wait to see a better scan of the postcard to see who all is in the carriage. In the past, they've been other family members.
The other item that
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fickleone won for me (
related post here) is from another side of the family --- another hotel run by ancestors. I've always said I wanted to run a bed and breakfast. It wasn't until a few years ago that I realized that it ran in my blood. I always knew I had multiple hotel-runners in my background--just never connected it with the occasional urge to run a B&B.
What's really weird is that all my genealogy work has been in hiatus for about 2-3 years. And in the last 2 months I've been contacted by two other researchers on two of my main family lines. One is starting a website on one of the families (related to the item
fickleone bought for me) and wanted me to partner with him. Should be fun. The other is on the same family line--but tracing a branch of the family that I believe migrated from WV to CA in the mid-1800s, but I've never been able to fully connect the dots. She's trying to connect the same dots.
I guess it may be time to dust off all those old genealogy files. I've got hundreds of them. There's a part of me that isn't sure I really want to go there again. It can be very time consuming.
