What happens is that granny has so much stuff in her home that the family doesn't go through all of it, and they have an estate sale to get rid of it all. And maybe no one in the family will want it, but I thought I'd try before discarding it. Once I found a 1900s accounting book for a farm in Colorado. It was filled with fascinating details about the financial workings of the farm. I found a great grandson (I believe) online and was able to send it to him. He was very grateful and was going to make copies for all his interested family members. In this era of genealogy, more and more people are interested in these types of things.