{"id":4215,"date":"2012-04-02T00:02:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T04:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/?p=4215"},"modified":"2012-04-02T00:02:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T04:02:10","slug":"genealogy-time-capsule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/genealogy-time-capsule\/","title":{"rendered":"Genealogy Time Capsule"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Once again I am writing this blog surrounded by construction debris and piles of dust.\u00a0 Having unearthed my computer from its protective cocoon of plastic wrap has allowed the dust to colonize yet another area of the house and will most likely soon render the computer inoperable. Lest you be thinking that I will soon be living in a house worthy of a photography session in House and Garden let me disabuse you of that notion.\u00a0 This is more a “we have to do it or the whole think is going to collapse” sort of remodel.\u00a0 When I attempted to stay home on Thursday having contracted whatever plague is going around I heard the workers under my bedroom window saying, “You think there’s an animal living in there?”\u00a0 This was followed by the response, “Nah, I think Jack chased it out yesterday.”\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

All of this is a long-winded way of saying that I am still without access to most of my genealogy stuff. I am, however, occasionally able to read other genealogy blogs, although usually long after their original posting, and I saw that Bill West at West in New England<\/a> had asked folks to write about what they would place in a genealogical time capsule.\u00a0 This is a post I can write without any actual data, so I’m all over it.\u00a0 It is also helpful to have missed the requested deadline and have read all the other actually thoughtful and interesting responses<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My first thought is that my time capsule is MINE and will be a twisted reflection of the oft-repeated phrase “history is written by the victors.”\u00a0 My family history research has made it clear to me that all of my ancestors were liars.\u00a0 They lied about everything, to my great frustration as a researcher, but who am I to mess with family tradition. So, my time capsule will contain pictures of me and my offspring, but only the best looking ones, with a little help from Photoshop. If it appears to my descendents that the body simply does not match the head, that’s their problem.<\/p>\n

It would be nice to include a well-sourced, extremely accurate version of my family history to date.\u00a0 Unfortunately, such a document does not exist.\u00a0 What they will get is the poorly sourced, mostly accurate, and occasionally incomprehensible current version. “Hey descendents, if you think you’re so smart, you figure it out.”<\/p>\n

I would have to include personal mementos of life in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, including:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 One of each of the various pills that have been prescribed for me during my life, only to be withdrawn from the market after we learned that they actually kill people.\u00a0 No wonder I’m dead.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 My favorite recipes. No wonder I’m dead.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 All of my exercise equipment.\u00a0 Oh wait, there isn’t any.\u00a0 No wonder I’m dead.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 My report card from the fourth grade.\u00a0 My kids didn’t want it, now you’re stuck with it.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 All of the TV and internet ads of the 2012 presidential campaign.\u00a0 Please tell me it doesn’t sound familiar.<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0 The story of my life.\u00a0 It was fun, really, almost all of it.<\/p>\n

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Now, how to insure that my time capsule is found in a hundred years or so.<\/p>\n

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First, be sure to bury it somewhere that will not be under water due to global warming.<\/p>\n

Second, put it anywhere but inside this house.\u00a0 I know this house is going to fall down no matter what we do, hopefully without us inside.<\/p>\n

Lastly, provide a series of intricate and painfully difficult to decipher clues to find it.\u00a0 Intricate, painfully difficult to decipher clues will make it appear that there is actually something valuable inside.\u00a0 I have no doubt greed will survive the twenty first century.<\/p>\n

It’s been fun thinking about my time capsule.\u00a0 I know that the goal of family historians and time capsules is to preserve the past.\u00a0 I think I have achieved the more common human result, reinventing the past.<\/p>\n

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Click on the photos to link to the websites of their creators.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Once again I am writing this blog surrounded by construction debris and piles of dust.\u00a0 Having unearthed my computer from its protective cocoon of plastic wrap has allowed the dust to colonize yet another area of the house and …<\/p>\n

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