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Family history
I've been rooting through a load of old family documents. AuntyGillian has offered to try and sort out the family tree and put it online. I had a go at it when my children were small and made a lot of progress, but that was pre-Internet days. Now, it makes much better sense to link family members by proper links than by page references. And documents can now be scanned, which means that all of the family will have access to things.
I've found some documents that I'd thought were lost. Letters written from the trenches in 1917 by my great uncle. A letter from my grandfather to my grandmother telling her about the bombing in Manchester. My great-grandfather's battle with the Carnegie Trust over some property in Dunfermline. A random selection of lives -mostly determined by what my grandmother chose to keep.
A whole pile of photographs, many sadly unlabelled. Who is the young woman with long, dark, curly hair who chose to fancy-dress as a gypsy for the photographer? Or the distinguished man with the Victorian beard?
What will future generations choose to keep of us?
Why does a handwritten letter convey so much more than an old email?
How ephemeral is the Internet?
I've found some documents that I'd thought were lost. Letters written from the trenches in 1917 by my great uncle. A letter from my grandfather to my grandmother telling her about the bombing in Manchester. My great-grandfather's battle with the Carnegie Trust over some property in Dunfermline. A random selection of lives -mostly determined by what my grandmother chose to keep.
A whole pile of photographs, many sadly unlabelled. Who is the young woman with long, dark, curly hair who chose to fancy-dress as a gypsy for the photographer? Or the distinguished man with the Victorian beard?
What will future generations choose to keep of us?
Why does a handwritten letter convey so much more than an old email?
How ephemeral is the Internet?
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As for being ephemeral, I think the internet is indeed ephemeral, but also a wonderful resource. I use my journal to look up things all the time, so there is some ballance there. Most pictures on the internet have some text around them, so that is good. But how long will the record last after we are gone? 100 years like those letters - I think not.
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Your family history sounds interesting and I know that frustration over such unlabelled pictures.
Sadly, I haven´t had a chance to do this - so far. But I would like to!!!!
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With only one living exceptions the relations we know are not worth the effort so Gawd only knows what the others are like!
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I love doing family history. I've got right back to 1600 on some of my lines.