31.   Most people, like the Rehbergs, hang on to family heirlooms, even when they discover the items are worth thousands of dollars.

32.   Myra Yellin Outwater is a descendant of immigrants and the recipient of some family heirlooms.

33.   Ms. Chang sold a diamond ring, a family heirloom, to keep the work going.

34.   No wedding photos, no family heirlooms, no framed artwork, no well-worn blanket draping a chair.

35.   Not all of the morning glories recently coming to light are family heirlooms.

36.   Often it is a wooden cradle, decorated with folk patterns that is a particularly valued family heirloom among the Albanians strapped to the back of their farm carts.

37.   Others have become cherished family heirlooms.

38.   Roberts Furs also does fur recycling, which involves taking a family heirloom and updating it into something more modern.

39.   She and her fiance, Doug Cleary, worked nonstop to furnish a co-op at Tudor City in Manhattan with family heirlooms from her grandparents.

40.   She said she considers it a family heirloom.