Barriers To Genealogy In The Future

[Wiggy]

Or at least keep everything in a box clearly labelled Family history so that whoever decides to be interested when they have time to pursue this hobby knows where to find it all - providing they can access it that is. 

But just think of the fun we are doing them out of!   

[Ruskie]

..... The only thing that keeps me thinking we will still have records and data in the future is the Big Brother concept. Governments and companies (think Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple) already want to know everything about us. I can't see this changing in the future.....

They want get into our heads and sell us stuff.  They don't care about our dear departed especially from centuries ago.

[pinefamily]

And because of that they want to know as much about us as they can. 

Call me suspicious, but this big push by Ancestry to send in your DNA sounds suspect too, in this context.

[KGarrad]

Just remember that the internet is only as good as the data on it!

If Ancestry's Trees are anything to go by, future generations will have one heck of a data-cleaning job!!

[jaybelnz]

A bit naughty, but wouldn't it be fun to create an absolutely fictitious tree on a certain public platform!  A tree with a huge diversity of people, unusual happenings, good and bad, and loads of photos and misinformation!  Then sit back and wait for the comments and enquiries, and keep up the fiction unreservedly!

Oh wait a minute, that sounds a bit like mine  (Not really)

[pinefamily]

A bit naughty, but wouldn't it be fun to create an absolutely fictitious tree on a certain public platform!  A tree with a huge diversity of people, unusual happenings, good and bad, and loads of photos and misinformation!  Then sit back and wait for the comments and enquiries, and keep up the fiction unreservedly!

Oh wait a minute, that sounds a bit like mine  (Not really)

It's already been done to death by a few hundred (thousand?) public trees you-know-where. 

[jaybelnz]

 

[DavidG02]

You're quite right TY!  And for those of us who have already done the hard yards, all our own descendants will need to do is add to it as they go along! 

Like a family bible?

I think we should try to ensure that the message, and hard copies as well as tech ones,  are handed down through our present and future generations, that someone in each family volunteers, or is nominated, to take responsibility for and be the faithful recorder and keeper of the treasure!  😄😄 

Will that work in my family??  I truly don't know!   

We have already been told - or noticed- that others don't share our enthusiasm for FH so to find that person to do this can be a difficult job- and how long will they do it for?

[pinefamily]

Our youngest son shows a passing interest in his family history so perhaps when my time is done I will leave it all to him, with a copy to the local historical society as well. Maybe I might relent and give a copy to SAGHS.