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Treasure Chest Thursday: Dina's Doll

1/17/2013

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Dina's Childhood Doll
Treasure Chest Thursday is a weekly blogging prompt from Geneabloggers in which we are encouraged to write about family heirlooms.  I am looking forward to using this prompt every week or so to write my about ancestors' possessions AND to catalog those items of my own that I want my kids and grandkids to preserve for future generations.

This week's post is about my maternal grandmother's childhood doll.
  She is currently sitting in a display cabinet in my mom's house, so, when we were visiting over Christmas, I took a few photos. 

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Around the time my Grandma was preparing to sell her home and move in with us (mid-1990s), my Aunt Sharon took the doll to get cleaned and fixed up.  The doll got a new dress and stockings, but she saved her original clothes and put them in a box (left pic below). In the box, Aunt Sharon also wrote down the doll's details (right pic below) - when Grandma got her, what she named her, and every address at which she "lived."  I am so very thankful for these details; it makes this particular heirloom so much more personal than if we just had the doll itself.  Grandma got the doll on her 10th birthday, which was 4 Sep 1924 and she called her either 'Doris' or 'Alice.'  And, if I wanted to, I could now plot on a map every location in which Grandma lived during nearly her whole life. (For a geography nerd like me, that's pretty cool.)
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Aunt Sharon, Grandma, and my Mom
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Queen Bee link
2/14/2013 06:08:52 am

What a special keepsake for your family. The doll is lovely! Great idea to keep a written record with all the details about the doll. Makes it even more special and having all of your Grandmother's addresses during her lifetime helps when doing genealogy research also.

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