Well, here is a very sophisticated version of what I have in my attic. (see below)
I call it my Family Archive. I began formally assembling it when our daughter and her new husband invited each member of the family to contribute something to their Millenium envelope. They would be submitting it to the Dublin Millenium Capsule 1988. At that time I wrote a letter to my great, great grandchildren, even though I didn't even have one grandchild yet.
Later, around the mid 1990s I was exploring my Scottish family history. I became acutely aware of how I had nothing I could touch that would connect me to them - other than the church where many of their life events took place - baptisms, burials, and marriages.
By nature I am an inverate hoarder, so beginning with what I already had in the line of theatre programmes, serviette's, travel tickets, not to mention a huge collection of photographs, I have continued since then to add consciously to the collection.
I realize that it may be that the family will have no great interest in what I leave, but I have been assured that the National Library would be delighted to have it.
I was delighted to find this little video on the whole topic.
What a lovely presentation this is. Now I will visit the website
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