persiflage wrote:Very interesting article.
I recall reading of concerns of social historians that information that has historically been available to them, photographs, letters, documents etc. Stored and discovered in drawers, boxes and attics will become harder and harder to access as people pass away having stored all their history on an electronic device.
My wife (and me by proxy) have been dabbling in family history research for the last decade or two, and even with the advent of digital records of what were originally paper files its not been easy. With so many recent sources (of interest mainly to our grandchildren I'd guess) being digital only and locked behind 'permission' walls I doubt they'll even have as much information available as we do. The irony of course is that it may be available but just not to them.
My answer has been to leave my own records - by writing autobiographies, memoirs, books about our 'life' etc. History, as Churchill said, will be kind to me as I intend to write it.