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fascinating. So many stories like that get lost. When people that was part of your history die, a part of yourself die too. There are so many beautiful family s

fascinating. So many stories like that get lost. When people that was part of your history die, a part of yourself die too. There are so many beautiful family stories that just vanish together with their family member. I always thought that in the end we would use social networks like Facebook for something like that: A timeline of our lives, with pictures, photos, thoughts, that our next generations could actually learn about their grandparents in an almost interactive way. I would love to know that my grandkids could just search for my name and get to know me as I was.

tbonesteaks 5y ago
My dad has kept an entry in calendars or date books of short recaps of every day since he was in college. I have done the same using something called a 5 year journal. Not journal entries though, just quick hits of the day. It is really fun to be able to look back at every day and read what happened. One day I need to digitize my dads entries, and maybe store them all so they can be filtered by date. Like read every entry for June 20th.
- WalterBright 5y ago
  Sounds like a treasure.
- Herodotus38 5y ago
  If you have children or nephews and nieces I’m sure they will benefit from the effort you are putting in, as well as the benefit you receive. I remember being very impressed when reading a biography somewhere online of Alexander Grothendeick, that it was a family tradition to keep biographies on ancestors, so he had this knowledge as well. I know very little of my great grandparents, and nothing beyond them, which I am sure is common in the United States.
jokethrowaway 5y ago
I like stories which live only in a few heads. I like how they get distorted and mixed up. Putting them down in words, or pictures, or videos, turns a memory full of potential into the dull reality. There is beauty in ephemerality. There is beauty in chaos and embellishments.
- pelasaco 5y ago
  even if it is true, somehow many parts of your history don't make it through.. Based on my own experience: My mom died in January. Lot of our own family stories, just died with her. Her brothers died before her, so as she died, a whole part of our family history died. Stuff that we remembered while in the Christmas table, like when she was kid with her brothers, and the big city was like a village, and they could climb all the trees where today are just skyscrapers. or the little things that me and my sister used to do while children.. Sure I can pass it partially forward, but it's not the same. Maybe the question that I still don't have answer for, and it is totally related with that is: How can I keep a website running (almost) forever?

tbonesteaks 5y ago

My dad has kept an entry in calendars or date books of short recaps of every day since he was in college. I have done the same using something called a 5 year journal. Not journal entries though, just quick hits of the day. It is really fun to be able to look back at every day and read what happened. One day I need to digitize my dads entries, and maybe store them all so they can be filtered by date. Like read every entry for June 20th.

WalterBright 5y ago
Sounds like a treasure.
Herodotus38 5y ago
If you have children or nephews and nieces I’m sure they will benefit from the effort you are putting in, as well as the benefit you receive. I remember being very impressed when reading a biography somewhere online of Alexander Grothendeick, that it was a family tradition to keep biographies on ancestors, so he had this knowledge as well. I know very little of my great grandparents, and nothing beyond them, which I am sure is common in the United States.

jokethrowaway 5y ago

I like stories which live only in a few heads. I like how they get distorted and mixed up. Putting them down in words, or pictures, or videos, turns a memory full of potential into the dull reality. There is beauty in ephemerality. There is beauty in chaos and embellishments.

pelasaco 5y ago
even if it is true, somehow many parts of your history don't make it through.. Based on my own experience: My mom died in January. Lot of our own family stories, just died with her. Her brothers died before her, so as she died, a whole part of our family history died. Stuff that we remembered while in the Christmas table, like when she was kid with her brothers, and the big city was like a village, and they could climb all the trees where today are just skyscrapers. or the little things that me and my sister used to do while children.. Sure I can pass it partially forward, but it's not the same. Maybe the question that I still don't have answer for, and it is totally related with that is: How can I keep a website running (almost) forever?