Floral Tea Set

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I was unable to get a photograph of the tea set, so I attempted to draw it from memory.
I was unable to get a photograph of the tea set, so I attempted to draw it from memory.

When I was growing up my mother had a floral tea set that looked similar to the drawing I included. I am unsure if she still is in possession of this set, but I remember it very vividly from my childhood. She explained to me that she got this tea set from her great grandmother on her father's side. I was always told when I was married or had children that the set would be passed down to me and then I could pass it down to my own children. 
 
 Unfortunately I do not have a lot of family that I am in contact with to really shell out my family's immigration story. I know that my mother told me that Heiber, our last name from her father's side, came to the United States from Germany. Based on this and my findings from a DNA test I took relatively recently I can assume that my mother's father's family immigrated from Germany within the last 200 years. This would put the migration from Germany sometime in the 1800s or early 1900s. I believe they came in through Ellis Island and eventually made their way up to Michigan where my mother's father's family is today. 


Place(s): Germany, Michigan

– Adriana Heiber

Relationship:  Great-grandchild of im/migrant or more Great-grandchild of im/migrant or more