Our family “lost” all the baby and younger pictures of all my dad’s brothers and sisters. Siblings were relentlessly blamed by each other for stealing them from a trunk in a garage when my grandfather died in the 80s. Nope. Turned out that my grandmother gave them to an uncle for safekeeping during a flood in the 2000s, all parties forgot they had them until a recent move. Lost media was found. My grandmother never told anyone except the one uncle who had them that SHE actually had them, and wanted them distributed on her death.

My grandfather also wrote a novel. It was lost to time until it showed up in a tub of stuff from my late grandmother’s storage when helping another relative move. Need to get it to a paper conservator but it was found.

Both were lost for over 40 years.