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The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
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The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

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Member Since: February 2005 Posts: 32,472 Send Message	Purple *^Sparkly^* Diamond	Report	2 Jan 2011 02:32
	I can't wait for grandchildren as I have almost every toy my son had still in the house, huge tub of lego and another of Konnex? all sorts of things, doctors set and tool set in their cases from FisherPrice, all the Thundercats and similar figures and Action Man and helicopter, motorbike and so on, as well as a toy buggy and two dolls. The dolls were given as pressies when my dear aunt thought I was having a girl again, and my son chose the buggy from a garage sale by some young girls in our street. He loved taking the dolls and his teddy for a ride. He has the toy kitchen and many other things all ready and waiting lol Have his first Christmas toy of sit and ride fire engine and lots of Tonka trucks and cranes, a ride on tractor and trailer ( he played more with the box it came in to start with) and dozens of books and puzzles etc. If he has a daughter first she will end up a tomboy with so much boy stuff to play with but what an excuse for me to buy girlie things! Hurry up, son, find your Miss Right and get on with it! Lizx
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 20,705 Send Message	maggiewinchester	Report	2 Jan 2011 01:17
	My old Duplo and Lego is already at my daughter's house - has been for 7 years!! Grandson (3) found my daughter's old till in November - so one of his Christmas presents was...a till - now he has one here and one at home. He is also interested in my doll's houses, so he has a second hand one I don't like (bought for the wood) filled with furniture I either don't like/want (mainly came with second hand houses) or bought really cheaply, with plastic, rather than porcelain dolls, that is his to play with - amazingly, he hasn't broken anything yet! His 8 year old sister can play with the 'real' ones! Younger daughter has lots of original 'Sylvanian' stuff - still in the (rather tatty) boxes in my attic.
	Researching: Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad)
Member Since: February 2009 Posts: 7,691 Send Message	Wend	Report	1 Jan 2011 22:44
	I'm so looking forward to getting all my son's (just about to turn 30) Lego down from the loft for my grandson, but he's only 8 months old, so a while to go yet. Seriously, Stray, is it really the buggy you sat in as a littlun? Hey, that's an antique - you could get money for it on e-bay lol! x
	Researching:
Member Since: April 2008 Posts: 1,832 Send Message	Sylvia	Report	1 Jan 2011 21:12
Member Since: April 2008 Posts: 1,832 Send Message	Hi, we got the lego and duplo from our loft when we had a clear out just before xmas. Also videos, Bill and Ben, laurel and hardy etc.
Member Since: October 2008 Posts: 13,848 Send Message	StrayKitten	Report	1 Jan 2011 13:25
	littleman lves playign with my old toys, his fav being my old buggy and my gremlins :) x
	Researching: It wasn't me
Member Since: June 2008 Posts: 384 Send Message	Sandra	Report	31 Dec 2010 17:15
	Hi Libby we got the lego down from the loft a few weeks ago and my 4 year grandson thinks it is just great My 24 years child keeps saying that my toy . Grandson reply O grow up nan got it down for me. Sandy
	Researching: brown, sawyer, dix, wheeler,attaway
Member Since: July 2004 Posts: 1,434 Send Message	Libby	Report	31 Dec 2010 14:33
	When we were getting the Christmas decorations down from the loft we came across an old video player and loads of vids, from when my nearly 17 year old daughter was small. Rug Rats, Lion King, Matilda etc. My nearly 3 year old grandaughter has been kept occupied for hours, often rejecting her new toys in favour of the vids. Oldies but Goldies. Not bad, considering we thought we had thrown them away. lol
	Researching: Gregory,(Southampton & Liverpool) Cowley,(Cheshire & Liverpool) Irons,(Scotland & Liverpool) Cowan,(Liverpol) Shergold,(Salisbury) Richens+variants, (Wiltshire) Seabrooke (Liverpool)

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