Thank you Lilian and Sue,
for the information about myHeritage and SOG’s offers. Such great ideas.
Ailsa
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On 12 Aug 2020, at 10:56 am, s stenning <sstenning@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The latest newsletter from the Society of Genealogists in London mentions a
website set up by one of its members called Lives Retold
https://livesretold.co.uk/ which is “a permanent, non-profit, online library ;
of biographical and autobiographical essays. It is intended to be of interest
to family members, and to future social historians. Everybody is welcome to
deposit here, without charge, essays about themselves or their relatives …
One person’s life is a fleeting event, but it can be captured in a written
account. The purpose of the Lives Retold website is to provide a home for
life stories - preserving them for all time and for all to see ...
Contributions are welcome. We would particularly encourage people to write
short illustrated essays about each of their parents, as a way for their
families and the world to remember them. We would also encourage you to write
your own life story - which could of any length from ten pages to over a
hundred. Many of us have boxes of photographs, letters, diaries and other
papers about ourselves, and our relatives. These are bulky to store, and are
seldom looked at. While they remain in boxes they are difficult or impossible
for family members to access. Yet to destroy these memories would be a sad
loss to our families, and to future social historians.”
Might be worth a look,
Sue
