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From: Jeanette Olger <>
Subject: [GenChat-L] Treasure? Trash?
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 10:42:16 -0500


I heard someone mention that one persons trash is another persons
treaure...here's a story that reminds me of that saying.

In Oct. we sold my mother-in-laws house (she died 2 years ago). When my
husband and I got to the house, my sister-in law said that she had some
"stuff" that she was going to throw out because she had no room for it
and didn't know what she would do with it anyways. Well, the first
thing I found in the box of "trash" was the original naturalization
papers for my husbands grandmother!! Complete with her picture and it
was bound with a leather cover. Then I continued and found divorce
papers for brother-in-law (no one could remember his wife's name), court
papers for my uncle when he changed his name from Radziejewski to
Rogers, and many many pictures and postcards from family in Poland.

Now this was truly...another persons TREASURE !!!!! I know have all
these papers, pictures in my possession and am so HAPPY!!!

Jeanette

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