Stories in the news about homes lost in fire or flood. My own experience trying without success to
find documentation of my early life. If
my mother had kept birth and adoption certificates, journals, letters, family
photos, they were lost in a house fire. A
friend who lost all her family records in a communication failure with a
storage unit. These experiences tell me that I need to change my ways.
We should keep records.
We should label photos. And we should make copies - give them to relatives, keep them in a safe
deposit box, store them in different places. give copies to children and other relatives.
What a treasure it would be to someone who has lost their home
to have a friend or relative be able to come forward with CD copies of some of
the photographs and documents that had been destroyed!
I need to learn to digitize records. Fill CDs with organized photos and
records. Give copies to my children.
I have been terrible at record keeping and
preservation. So I urge me as well as
you to begin to take better care of records and memories.
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