The map was in my parents’ things and it brought back memories of a trip my whole family took a trip to Peoria, Illinois, in the 1980s when I competed in a regional spelling bee. We ate our noon meal at the former’s Jumer’s restaurant (shown on the map). It was the days before online maps and navigation. I am reasonably certain Mom did not draw the map, but I’m not entirely certain.
The map brought back memories.
Do I need to preserve the paper map? I’m not certain. I can certainly make a digital image of the map, but I am thinking that I should file it in a folder of “not so important images.” My children or my descendants will do good to look at a folder of ancestral pictures, let alone pictures of things as esoteric as a map drawn to get to a restaurant we ate at one time.
Think twice about saving everything and think twice about saving every images of everything in one big folder. Is someone going to want to look through images of every piece of paper you had?
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Be sure to explain the item. The story is important.
Ah, but it may be something children or grandchildren would be interested in if the story was included with it. Just like in this posting, explaining why it was significant to their father or grandfather in his youth. This is an answer to “the questions I wish I’d asked my relative before they were gone.” This gives insight into the person or persons about which the story is told.
If you saved it instead of tossing it, then there must be a story there somewhere…
My Mom was the one who actually saved it. I’m on the fence although I’ve digitized it and included the story.
We didn’t take many road trips that far from home when I was a kid and a trip to Peoria was a big deal at the time.