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Many moons ago, the man who presented me with half his genetic makeup gave me a bunch of stuff related to family tree fun. He said he wanted it back, but I don't think that will happen now. I found it yesterday when rummaging through my drawers. Most of it is Old News, or just plain rubbish, from Life Before the Internet Existed when people had to do proper sleuthing and actually travel to a record office and spend hours decoding handwriting, etc. But, there was one page of notes which made me laugh. After leaving us, Father paid maintenance of £64 a month, each. This amount never changed, and he paid it begrudgingly until we each attained the grand old age of seventeen. These days I suspect he would have to pay until we left full-time education, but back then he had the advantage. As soon as one of his children turned seventeen the maintenance dropped by £64. And he washed his hands of us. Because, you know, once you hit the magical age of seventeen you have no more need for food, clothes, a roof over your head, a dad ... But I digress. You may be able to see from the photo that he calculated how much of a saving not having to pay maintenance would be, and how it would contribute to his old age and his pension. It's quite a lot of money. I hope he's enjoying spending it. *grin*