Having the roof sorted has prompted Mrs H and I to empty the attic, including masses of old paperwork accumulated by our parents. We shoved it up there after they died, thinking we'd deal with it eventually.
Fifteen years later we're dealing with it, masses of it, bills, receipts, chequebooks, leaflets, letters, invoices, bank statements and general junk.
I even came across my father's wartime naval record in a folder with other odds and ends, something I've never seen before - that's one to keep. Plus one or two copies of Irish birth certificates from the nineteenth century.
It's pushed us into sorting through our own paperwork though. It's not going up into the attic - attics just accumulate junk.
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Make sure you increase the insulation when the roof goes back on. Boxes full of old papers really help to keep the heat in.
Don't ancestral Irish birth certificates allow you to claim an Irish passport?
Sam - that's a good idea, all the junk mail could go up there too.
Woodsy - I don't know, I've never looked into it, but it may be a possibility.
I looked into it. But my Irish grandpa had been so careless as to be born in England.
dearieme - I think mine was born in Ireland, but I need to sort through more of my father's paperwork.
I strengthened our attic so we could fit more junk up there. It's only this last couple of years I've been slowly bringing it down again and binning or ebaying it.
There's no paperwork up there though. All our paperwork takes up gigabytes of cloud storage
Bucko - apart from the paperwork our parents left, ours is mostly down to an old habit of keeping paper instead of relying entirely on digital storage.
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