What memories will you leave?

I have photos going back to my GGGrandparents days and have traced the family trees for my paternal/maternal families plus my partners family. All printed out, alongside Census records etc. Have many certificates too.
Also collected many newspaper articles, surprising what the family got up to over the years!

I don't know what will happen to it all, my youngest son doesn't show much interest in such stuff and he will be the one to deal with it all one day. Possibly my niece will appreciate things from that side of the family.

Never assume that children won't be interested in family stuff in the future. I had little interest when younger but something clicked later on and after retirement I researched every branch of the family back to the 1700s!

They may dismiss old pictures with a shrug but after you're gone they might by studying them in detail, absolutely fascinated. Things change.

No one is interested in the dead except for the will, they will put everything in a skip, no one cares anymore, we are a lost society

Chestnut that’s amazing ! Well done !

a lot of photos i sort of remember but i think when my parents were alive they got lent out but not returned. Anyway what they did leave i kept. Dad liked aeroplanes vintage ones with boxes of slides and photos of them but i kept them for now. i do not think the girls when i go will keep them or any other slides and photos. they are a different generation

labazs - if you have a collection of anything then try and find a home for it. There's always someone who wants it.

I inherited all sorts of things and have managed to donate them very successfully. An example would be my mother's 1940's nursing books which I donated to a hospital museum in London. I think the British Museum took a couple of them!

Paintings, I have done, a comfortable house, photographs, and four books I have written. Plus many knitted throws .