{"id":2117,"date":"2020-07-29T02:37:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T02:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atticarchives.com\/?page_id=2117"},"modified":"2021-08-02T13:56:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T13:56:13","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.atticarchives.com\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2117\" data-post-id=\"2117\" data-obj-id=\"2117\" class=\"elementor elementor-2117 dce-elementor-post-2117\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0b0389f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0b0389f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-bdae12e\" data-id=\"bdae12e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c4f0b61 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c4f0b61\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">About<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-57dffb9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"57dffb9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>When my parents passed away recently I made many fascinating discoveries within boxes that had been shuffled around for 3 and in some cases 4 generations.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n<p>The treasures included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Albums of antique family photos dating back to the civil war,<\/li>\n<li>Customer letters my grandma saved when she worked at Montgomery Ward in the 1930s<\/li>\n<li>My Great Great Grandmother&#8217;s scrapbook full of clippings dating back to the 1850s<\/li>\n<li>Thousands of letters including every letter exchanged by my grandparents during WWII<\/li>\n<li>So much more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>In the process of going through these items I started to learn more about my family&#8217;s history.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I ran with it and started digging into genealogical research for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>I built this site as a way to organize what I found in the boxes and while doing research.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way it occurred to me that I&#8217;m not the only one in this situation and maybe others could use a similar site.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m starting with a round of private beta testers but you can play around with a demo site here.&nbsp; 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