Instead of using it as drawer liner, Cristine Lund is now on the hunt for the original owner of a roll of wallpaper she purchased at the Salvation Army Thrift Store in Campbell River.
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But what she had purchased was not just any wallpaper though. The $2 vintage wall covering had a six-foot family tree penciled on its back with dates that go as far back as 1593. A few thoughts went through her mind, she says, and she含羞草研究社檚 still not sure in what order.
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Lund initially posted her find on Facebook, hoping to connect with members of the Anglo-Saxon-named families sketched on to the wallpaper: Kent, Edwards, Hodgeson, Elizabeth. She has been researching her own genealogy, so thought it be best to post in on Facebook, thinking it would be important to someone.
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She plans on delivering the wallpaper to the Campbell River Genealogy Society, however, she did get a message from them that they might have found the owner already.
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