Very cool.  Thanks for sharing these, Pat.  I don't know if I have any old deeds or anything like that in my family.

Great keepsakes Pat McCormick ! I have a box of really old photos from my family and my husbands family that I keep menaing to go through , one of these days.

Good afternoon Pat ... great finds and history to pass on to your family for years to come  My mother has a passion for all family history.  She cherishes every find.  Nice post!

Pat - I love digging up old photos and keepsakes, too!

Now, those are true treasures;  looking back into the past is always interesting, no matter what we find.

Now that is T (WAAAAYYYY) BT!  And, very fun reading.  These are certainly treasures, Pat!

Your "I'll get to this stuff later" storage space reminds me of cabinets out in my garage.  This spring I went through them after years of neglect, and was shocked at what I found in there.  It was like opening a time capsule.

Thanks for sharing these old soldiers and documents, so nice to see you preserving these memories.

By the way, for anyone who would like to get a closeup look at these or other images in blogs, just put your curser over them and right click your mouse then click "view image".