Marianne Hall, who started working on her family tree on the back of a piece of wallpaper in 1999, has been reunited with it after parting from it following a house move.
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The wallpaper was found at a thrift store by Cristine Lund who was thinking of cutting up the six feet long sheet of wallpaper for lining furniture. Luckily, she noticed a detailed family tree including dates from the 1500s with a bunch of details including Anglo-Saxon names, birth dates, and dates of death.
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So Lund appealed to a Facebook group, where she received tips to contact the Campbell River Genealogy Society and media.
Hall害羞草研究所檚 daughter saw a segment on the TV about the mystery $2 wallpaper with a detailed family tree on the back, done in pencil. She recognized some of the names, thought the writing looked familiar and told Hall she thought it looked like wallpaper she would choose.
She decided to contact the Genealogy Society, which connected Lund and Hall.
After her aunt travelled to England in 1998, meeting with cousins, she decided to sketch out the family tree going off a rough drawing with all the information the cousins knew at the time. Unfortunately, the aunt passed away shortly after returning.
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Most of her work comes from church records in England from where her ancestors used to live, allowing her to get as far back as the 1740s. From there, she was able to research as far back as the late 1500s.
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Hall also expressed her gratitude to Lund for pursuing her search for the owner of the family tree, instead of using it as drawer lining. She also noted the two had a lot of things in common, calling her a new friend.
Hall plans to continue the family tree calling it a project for this spring.
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