Christmas is just around the corner and children around the country will be feverishly counting down until the big day arrives and finally finding out what Santa has brought them.
Of course, the excitable anticipation for December 25 is nothing new, with generations of young people having gone through the same giddy thrill over the decades. The only difference is what they were hoping Father Christmas would put in their stockings.
Family history experts Ancestry have explored the archive at Newspapers.com to uncover letters from children to the North Pole dating back more than a century.
