Some items that have genealogical or historical relevance to your family are too large to preserve, have left family ownership, or have already passed from ownership or ceased to exist.
I’m talking about family businesses, family farms, automobiles, farm equipment, homes, neighborhoods, and the like.
There are still some things you can do to preserve the memory of these things to which your family has a connection, including:
- Curation of photographs
- Creation of custom-made maps (of the neighborhood, the farm, the inside of the home, the house and surrounding buildings, etc.)
- Recording of family members’ memories
- Locating newspaper accounts of the items
- Curation of memorabilia related to the neighborhood or business
Preservation of large items may require some creativity and can be a good activity when we are stuck on locating information on long-deceased humans.
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