{"id":21050,"date":"2024-09-06T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=21050"},"modified":"2024-09-08T15:32:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T20:32:42","slug":"can-you-keep-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/06\/can-you-keep-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Keep Everything?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/peoria-1980s.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"410\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/peoria-1980s.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/peoria-1980s.jpg 970w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/peoria-1980s-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/peoria-1980s-768x325.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The map was in my parents\u2019 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\u2019s Jumer\u2019s restaurant (shown on the map). &nbsp;It was the days before online maps and navigation. I am reasonably certain Mom did not draw the map, but I\u2019m not entirely certain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The map brought back memories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do I need to preserve the paper map? I\u2019m 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 \u201cnot so important images.\u201d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The map was in my parents\u2019 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\u2019s Jumer\u2019s restaurant (shown on the map). &nbsp;It was the days before online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}