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The problem is not that information can't be persisted: diaries etc have been around for a long time. The problem is that there is nobody left who will care abo
by jpatokal 10y ago
The problem is not that information can't be persisted: diaries etc have been around for a long time. The problem is that there is nobody left who will care about a person they've never even met.
- tim333 10y agoI recently tried looking up some relatives about 5 generations back. If you average 2 kids each then in 5 generations you have 40 or so living descendants who may be curious. It was interesting because one of them wrote a family history in fairly literary form - bit Jane Austen in style. Not sure we would have bothered if it was just diaries.