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Post by rrp23 on Jul 29, 2019 21:33:37 GMT
I have two! Add yours!
Behind the mirror of an old compact i have is a fragile piece of paper written in hebrew, and im assuming it is something that someone wanted to keep but not be easily found by someone else. Ive tried using an online translator but it wasnt easy to identify. Im dying to know what it says.
I have an old ring that has a carnelian stone that is shaped like a spike, with floral details and some odd stamp. Ive not been able to identify what the ring means or its origin. My mother bought it and was told it was fertility ring. I cant find anything like it online.
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Post by leeny on Jul 29, 2019 21:39:38 GMT
I have two! Add yours! Behind the mirror of an old compact i have is a fragile piece of paper written in hebrew, and im assuming it is something that someone wanted to keep but not be easily found by someone else. Ive tried using an online translator but it wasnt easy to identify. Im dying to know what it says. I have an old ring that has a carnelian stone that is shaped like a spike, with floral details and some odd stamp. Ive not been able to identify what the ring means or its origin. My mother bought it and was told it was fertility ring. I cant find anything like it online. If you send me a photo I'll have my Rabbi take a look and see if he can translate it. |
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Post by MorningPerson on Jul 29, 2019 21:48:29 GMT
..... or just post a picture here. I can't imagine that there aren't some peas who know how to read Hebrew.
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Post by iteach3rdgrade on Jul 29, 2019 22:31:01 GMT
I've lost a lot of weight and I lost my sapphire somewhere in the house. It's a mystery. LOL
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Jul 29, 2019 22:42:17 GMT
I have no idea what happened to the box full of my record albums.
I think when moving, that box got accidently put in the donate pile.
It wasn't until a couple months later, when I was going through the "non-essentials" boxes that I realized it wasn't there, along with a couple boxes of home decor.
I know record albums are obsolete, but the photos and artistry on some of those albums were awesome.
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Post by cadoodlebug on Jul 29, 2019 22:48:59 GMT
I have distinct memories of pictures we took of DS while on vacation in Laguna Beach many years ago. I can't for the life of me figure out what happened to them. I have other pictures I took on that vacation but not the other ones. We rented a small boat and motored down waterways between some really nice homes. We let DS steer the boat for a while and I took some really cute pictures. Can't find them.  |
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Post by Nanner on Jul 29, 2019 23:27:02 GMT
My biggest one is genealogy related. My GGF's father died 2 years before he was born. There's no way I'm solving the mystery of who his father really was unless I find a DNA match. 98% of my DNA matches don't have a tree, so I can't go browsing.
This has been bugging me for almost 40 years.
Also, where on earth did my sewing machine go?
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Post by HelenaJole on Jul 30, 2019 1:50:59 GMT
When I was in sixth grade I missed picture day, so I dressed up for the retakes. Some of the kids in my class asked me why, and when I explained, they insisted that I had been there and described me helping to move some stuff that day. I never did come up with an explanation.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jul 30, 2019 1:59:17 GMT
I’d like to know why there was an ancient can of corn up in the stairwell ceiling of my old house. Like, inside, up on top of the plaster ceiling! 🤔 We were changing out the light fixture and when DH was cutting the hole to redo the electrical box he heard something thumping around up there. Turned out it was a can of corn! 🤪
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Post by refugeepea on Jul 30, 2019 2:03:04 GMT
Before reading any posts I thought of the family story of some great or great great grandfather who disappeared one day and never came home. He would never talk about his past. My aunt has done extensive family history work (went way back to royalty on one line) and can't figure out the mystery. My own grandfather was born in 1886, so who knows what befell the man. Or he just walked out. 
She's tried encouraging members of our enormously large family on Facebook to do the ancestral testing. I'm not that curious and I can think of lots of other things I'd prefer to spend my money on.
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Post by purplebee on Jul 30, 2019 2:04:17 GMT
Went to Ireland in 2007. While in Galway, bought a sterling Claddagh ring which I wore quite often. I always put it in the same place when I took it off. I've been trying to find it for about five years now, thinking it will turn up in a jacket pocket or in an unused purse!
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Jul 30, 2019 2:08:15 GMT
I once lost the entire month of June.
It was maybe August when I realized... I could remember some stuff I'd done in May, a trip in July. But nothing about June. And I must have done stuff, since there were appointments in my calendar, like a trip to the dentist, but I had literally no memory of anything that month.
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Post by FuzzyMutt on Jul 30, 2019 2:21:38 GMT
My grandmother was a spitfire married to a shitty alcoholic with a “first family” 5 hours away.
My mother has a recollection of a picnic in a fairly unique spot when she was young elementary age.. way befor my grandfather (step but the man I think of as grandfather) entered the picture officially.. and there is a photo of my Grandmother and my (step) grandfather in the exact place of the picnic.
So.. the mystery. I have two uncles. Younger than my mom. The older uncle (middle “child”) looks identical to my (step) grandfather. All three kids are supposed to have been born before (step) grandfather entered the picture.
I KNOW my mom is the daughter of bio grandfather.. but completely believe both uncles are the sons of my (step) grandfather. My grandmother took this to her grave... easily. But I don’t want to rock the boat with uncles and who they believe their father is with DNA lol when that generation is gone.. cousins and I are gonna figure this out!
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Post by refugeepea on Jul 30, 2019 2:24:22 GMT
I KNOW my mom is the daughter of bio grandfather.. but completely believe both uncles are the sons of my (step) grandfather. My grandmother took this to her grave... easily. But I don’t want to rock the boat with uncles and who they believe their father is with DNA lol when that generation is gone.. cousins and I are gonna figure this out! In my family, we just assume there's some shady history. My grandfather had a total of 20 children with 3 different women.  |
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Post by fredfreddy44 on Jul 30, 2019 2:36:45 GMT
MY grandfather married my grandmother in 1936. When the 1940 census became public in 2012, I looked them up. I saw my grandfather, grandmother, and uncle (my mom was born a few months later).
For kicks, I looked up the 1930 census. According to it, my grandfather was married to someone else, before my grandmother! My mom had no clue and still thinks it is a mistake. Someone named Frances from South Dakota. No way to track it down.
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Post by Bobomommy on Jul 30, 2019 2:52:09 GMT
When my husband decided he wanted a divorce I hid my jewelry because I was afraid he would pawn it. Several pieces were my mother’s. I forgot where I hid it. I’ve been looking for 9 years. To possible that he found it.
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Post by candleangie on Jul 30, 2019 2:52:16 GMT
My grandparents moved to the US from Canada and got married here. There’s no record of his divorce from his first wife in Canada......? 🤷♀️
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2019 2:59:00 GMT
What happen to my father’s father. I keep hoping there is more family.
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Post by breetheflea on Jul 30, 2019 2:59:57 GMT
Before reading any posts I thought of the family story of some great or great great grandfather who disappeared one day and never came home. He would never talk about his past. My aunt has done extensive family history work (went way back to royalty on one line) and can't figure out the mystery. My own grandfather was born in 1886, so who knows what befell the man. Or he just walked out.
She's tried encouraging members of our enormously large family on Facebook to do the ancestral testing. I'm not that curious and I can think of lots of other things I'd prefer to spend my money on.
Any chance your mystery grandfather is named William Clark from Colorado? DH family history has a missing great-grandfather who disappeared in the early 1900s never to be heard from again. I'm out-of-state and court records (from when his widow divorced him, years later when he never turned up) are over $90 Someday when I win the lottery... |
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Post by breetheflea on Jul 30, 2019 3:04:54 GMT
My grandma would have been 15 on the 1940 census except she's not on there. Anywhere in the US. All her siblings are there, but somehow she's not listed. She didn't marry my grandpa until 1945. I am guessing when naming all nine children, my great-grandfather just skipped her. But I'll probably never find out.
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Post by garcia5050 on Jul 30, 2019 3:22:44 GMT
I lost one set of honeymoon photos. Of course, it was the set that included pictures of my super sunburn, and a couple of topless pics. I would love to see my 26 year old boobs!
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Post by peabay on Jul 30, 2019 3:23:03 GMT
My aunt (married to my biological uncle) had an older sister who vanished in the 1950s. She ran off with her married boss and they completely disappeared. Her family did everything they could to find them - the FBI even looked for them - they were nowhere to be found.
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Post by tiffanyr on Jul 30, 2019 4:55:53 GMT
Back in 1987, I hung out with Chris Isaak one evening! My boyfriend was the opening act at the bar/nightclub Chris was playing with(this was just before he became famous with “Wicked Game”. I have a great photo of me and Chris and he autographed a piece of paper...he drew his profile with a lightbulb over his head and wrote, “Tiffany, I’ve got an idea...!!” I put that piece of paper somewhere during a move for safe keeping and I have never been able to find it again!! 32 years later and I still rack my brain sometimes trying to think of where it could be! I’m sure my kids will find it when I’m dead and gone and wonder who the hell was Chris Isaak?!?!
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Post by psoccer on Jul 30, 2019 5:28:49 GMT
My tweezers. I had the most awesome tweezers, had them through high school and multiple moves. Last year I got a kitten, and I know he got them out of the drawer, because he would get things out of the drawer and toss them on the floor. Usually, things just laid there and I'd put them back, but these suckers are missing. I cleaned out my closet and moved all my furniture in the bedroom, thinking they might have been knocked in there.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2019 5:30:09 GMT
I have several.
My aunt vanished in 1986. We have no idea what happened or if she’s dead or alive. I’ve been told that there was extensive search for her but when I checked, she was not in the missing person’s database.
My speed light for my camera vanished, I think from my home. No other camera gear ever went missing. I don’t even know who could have had opportunity to take it.
My DH has a relative who just fell off the planet in the west somewhere in the late 1800s. I connected on a genealogy board with someone who knew of a divorce but things were super sketchy with this guy (the missing guy) and no one from either his first or second family has any record of what happened to him.
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Post by patin on Jul 30, 2019 5:46:40 GMT
I've found my biological father, but not my mother. He doesn't seem to remember. We think he knows.
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Post by Restless Spirit on Jul 30, 2019 11:36:22 GMT
Another missing relative story:
The family story says my mother had an aunt (by marriage) that got on a trolley bus one late afternoon to go buy groceries / bread / cigarettes (depends on who was telling the story). She was never seen or heard from again. This was in the early 1940’s I believe. Even with all of the modern day access to census records and dna ancestry data bases she’s nowhere to be found. I have pictures of her. She’s lovely and mysterious looking. Some say she had a history of mental illness. I’d love to know her story.
2). I’d love to know the history and story about the diamond ring that my DH inherited from his parents. Everyone we’ve asked are not sure who originally owned it and say they’ve never seen it before. It could be from either side of the family. It looks to be somewhat Art Deco. Sadly, there are some family members we can’t ask because they would demand we give it to them. These are the same people that we are pretty sure went into the parents house and helped themselves to most of the valuable jewelry including MILs wedding ring. DH is still ticked about that. Some how they missed this ring.
I’d at least like to be able to interpret the makers marks on the inside of the ring, but I’ve searched the internet for 10 years with no luck. I think it’s lovely so I wear and enjoy it and will pass the mystery ring on to our DD.
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Post by lbp on Jul 30, 2019 12:02:45 GMT
My Great Grandfather was killed by a train while walking on a train trestle. He walked there every day. He knew what time the train was coming. We have pondered if he committed suicide or not. He had 4 children and one on the way and was in huge debt. My Grandmother was born 5 months later. She never knew him.
Where did my paper dolls go that were at my Grandmothers in the wash stand in the room I slept in? I always kept them there and one day they just weren't there and my Grandma said she didn't throw them away and we looked and looked for them. I may have tossed them out with some other paper. I looked for them for years.
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Post by peasapie on Jul 30, 2019 12:13:46 GMT
I've got nothing. But these stories are great!
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Post by cakediva on Jul 30, 2019 13:20:40 GMT
I created a 40th Anniversary scrapbook for my parents. I did a page (or sometimes two) for every year they were together. The last two pages were left out on a table for guests to sign at their open house. That was in October 2004, and Dad passed in February 2005.
Mom remarried a few years later, and SWEARS she gave it to me when she moved house. I have no recollection of having it in my possession. We also moved after she got married.
When she left him (verbal abuse) and moved and settled on her own, NO trace of that book is anywhere. We searched EVERY box in my unfinished basement that came from my old house and hadn't been opened since the move. Nada.
It wasn't in my office with all my old scrapbook supplies either.
Now I'm of the opinion he destroyed it on her.
But I'd really love to know where it went!
And mystery #2 - when my Grandfather passed, we did a photo display for the funeral home. I took those photos and did an album for my Grandmother. Nobody knows where that has gone either!
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