Some of the best family history can be found in a qult.
My DH & I have 2 quilts that my MIL never completed. When Jim and I got married I found the unfinished quilts tops under a bed in the house. I came to find out that my MIL had used their old clothes and made the quilts when my SIL was 5 years old. She did 5 tops and then thought that quilting was boring! Well my SIL is 56 years old now. When she saw them, she started telling me which ones were made out of her favorite clothes and even ones that were her brothers and my FIL (he passed aways almost 20 years ago). Then I found out that she had the other two tops I ended up finishing those tops for her!
Wonderful memories for a family that lives so far apart. I was glad to bring back some of those memories.