Even today where everyone is generating massive amounts of records detailing their lives a lot of the worst parts are kept hidden and will never be recorded in

Even today where everyone is generating massive amounts of records detailing their lives a lot of the worst parts are kept hidden and will never be recorded in a newspaper, or a census, or even a social media post for historians to find. If anything people today tend to present misleading appearance of their lives and that was likely true in the past. Getting an accurate idea of people's struggles will always be difficult for historians.