From: Keith_Nuttle@sbcglobal.net   
      
   On 4/12/2019 12:39 PM, Ian Goddard wrote:   
   > On 11/04/19 16:23, david1940 wrote:   
   >> I have often regretted that I have no recording of my parents' voices.   
   >> We are busy collecting facts about our ancestors but have no idea of   
   >> how they spoke.   
   >> In this day and age it would be easy to get them to say a few words,   
   >> read a poem or passage from a newspaper or get them to give their   
   >> opinion on current events (Brexit anyone?)   
   >>   
   >> How many of this group have done this?   
   >   
   > Going off at a slight tangent - what about leaving something about   
   > yourself for your descendants?   
   >   
   > When I started on family history I attended a University evening course   
   > (rip-off, names omitted to protect the guilty).  I'd rather expected   
   > that we might be set an initial assignment of writing a short biography   
   > of ourselves.  We weren't so I never did - and without such compulsion   
   > it remains way down the todo list although there are a few CVs written   
   > at different times.   
   >   
   > The first time I encountered an old diary (Arthur Jessop (C.E. Whiting,   
   > (ed), 1952. Two Yorkshire diaries)) I wished I'd kept something similar.   
   >   Far too late now and I had the opportunity to make a contemporaneous   
   > eye-witness account a few bits of history at close quarters for extended   
   > periods.   
   >   
   > Ian   
   I second Ian's recommendation.   
      
   Early on in my Research I came across the situation where in some   
   records the person went by his first name and others his middle name.  I   
   contacted a person, and his reply was that the family knew that both   
   names were the same person, but he had no proof.  I immediately got   
   every old family bible in my possession and copied the genealogy pages.   
      
   In an other situation I was doing research and found a gedcom of stories   
   about my great grandfather.  As I was enjoying the letters, I realized I   
   owed the same thing to my great grandchildren and started to document   
   the stories from my immediate family.  I also wrote down all of the   
   stories I had heard about my grandparents.  That was about 12 years ago.   
     I now have about 100 pages in single space lines in those documents.   
   This does not count the research summaries for convoluted connections I   
   have made in my family.   
      
   As we grow old we should do the following to continue our genealogical   
   history.   
      
   1.  Record the facts and stories from about your parents, grandparents   
   and your own life.  Try to get your spouse to do the same thing.   
      
   2.  Identify the people in all of your pictures.   
      
   3.  Have your documents organized so it is obvious what it is and so   
   that they can be accessed by someone else.   NOTE:  I know of two   
   incidences where this did not happen.  In one, all of the person   
   genealogical records went to the dump, and after they were gone the   
   children realized what they had thrown out.   In the other there was a   
   pocket book that was nearly 200 years old. When the children were   
   cleaning out an aunts apartment someone found it and thought it was just   
   old bag and rags, and it went to the dump.   
      
      
   4.  Handle your genealogical estate the same as your physical and   
   financial estate.  Make sure your children and grandchildren know where   
   and what that estate consisted of.  They should also know what you want   
   done with it when you die.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
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