When thinking about the heirlooms that I have collected or given to me from my family, I cannot think of much. Everything that has been giving to me by my parents, I never really considered an heirloom. However this thought of a heirloom stuck with me because my parents had to have given me at least one thing that was generational and passed down from my family member.

At first I only thought of an heirloom as only existing as a physical object. I've now realize that heirlooms can be so much more. For this week I looked at my last name as a family heirloom.

In a way the last name, Branker, is a heirloom; at least from my father's side. I haven't yet been able to do a thorough research yet as most of family documents are in the West Indies.  I first did a quick google search of my last name which came up with everyone on the internet whose last name was Branker, which included my aunt's obituary from back in 2015.  I have also done a quick search on google for the origin of my name, which actually originates from England which is unsurprising as my father is from Trinidad, which was a colony of the British empire up until 1962.

I don't have many objects that remind me of my extended or my generational family. My last name is a good place to start searching so that I can begin to claim them as my family.