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So many thoughts: - knowing this about you ancestor is interesting but thinking they are the inspiration for the "for want of a nail" cautionary tale is what m
by zikzak 3y ago
So many thoughts:
- knowing this about you ancestor is interesting but thinking they are the inspiration for the "for want of a nail" cautionary tale is what most people are expecting when they start looking into the past. The reality is most people's lives are pretty mundane and they personal connections are what make it interesting.
- notebook in the attic - there's a movement to digitize all the notebooks in attics we are losing over time. This is especially a thing in agriculture because of all the information about local weather, crop yields, etc. It would be great if there was some publicily funded service that you could send these to for free instead of throwing them out (possibly with drop off at public libraries that could either digitize them or send them in bulk). They could scan and return for a fee.
- susiecambria 3y agoRe: notebook in the attic, one of the things I've recommended historical societies do is conduct public scanning days so that individuals/families can preserve their pics and docs and at the same time share them in a curated collection with DPLA (dp.la), Digital Public Library of America. Few organizations are interested. I've never expected them to drop everything to do it, but I at least expect them to contemplate broader community engagement, increasing membership, generating interest in families beyond those already interested in genealogy, etc.
- starkparker 3y agothey didn't say "write in a notebook and put it in an attic and make sure as a ghost that you kill anyone who attempts to digitize it"
- zikzak 3y agoSorry, I was trying to endorse the notebook in the attic and lamenting people throwing them away instead of preserving them.