What are you going to leave your Descendants

[EDO]

Yeaaah  Barbara

Good thinking   

EDO

[EDO]

Don't stick a tag on the outside, they come off!!

Paste it on the inside!!
Obviously, it will have to be there for many decades!!

EDO

[little meg]

' and contents' ... got ya!
I have lined the inside of the box with tapestry material so I will sew my requests to it.

Thanks guys, I am sure he will appreciate all this attention 

Margaret

[redmr2red]

I'll be leaving my son, with instructions to leave it to my grandson, my Avitar (on the left) which is a gold locket & chain with a picture of my Great Grandfather in it, (even though he had two families at the same time and we are the second unmarried family).  When my grandson gets it that will make six generations.

But first I have to hope my mother will leave it to me. 

Kevin

[Windsor87]

It is not in my intention to create descendents, so that makes things that little bit easier for me.

Whoever they may be, they can inherit my knowledge of the family. It has always been my intention to write down the stories I know about my grandmother to give some character to what would otherwise be names, dates and pictures.
I think that this is something which most of us forget when we do our trees. We record the names and the dates. We record the events and value pictures. But we often forget to record character rendering it to be of no value to our research. We should write down the funny stories and the tragedies before we forget them, or before it is too late to pass them on.

[adee7]

I fully agree with you. 

It has always been my intention that the document I give to my family will include my recollections of my grandparents (the two that I knew), written notes about my Scottish grandparents (kindly provided by a cousin), and stories about my parents and the folks of my generation. 

As well, I continue to search for anectdotes and social histories that will help give a broader picture of our ancestors' lives.

I believe that when all is said and done these are far more important than the dates that are so very important as we search for our ancestors.

Kathleen

[pennine]

An unpaid gas bill!

Pennine

[brendam]

To my children I will leave memories and lots of papers that I've collected, they love looking through their files now and they are only 12 and 16, so hopefully their files will mean more to them in the future.

To my only niece I leave an audio cassette that was made when I moved out of country for a few years.  She was three years old (25 years ago) and telling me about her day.  All of a sudden she said "I have to go pee now", she took the recorder with her and you can hear her tinkling and flushing".  Then she says "I'm done" and sings me a song.  That tape is one of my most prized possessions.  I also have all the letters my niece and nephew wrote to me when they were wee children. 

[BevL]

Won't be many photos as they stopped taking photos once I was born!   I don't know why!
But I'll try to write on the back of photos who is who in the family and leave a fairly well documented report particularly of my own family - with a bit of the other peers as well!
Bev