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Preserving Your Everyday Life
Although we often look wistfully back to what we perceive as the simpler times of centuries past, we forget that life was simpler because it held few options and even fewer pleasures. In fact, the notion of personal life, leisure time and hobbies, were nearly nonexistent. In centuries past, a person's life was given in great part to finding and maintaining enough food, water and shelter to keep themselves and their communities alive. The demands were so great, in fact, that an individual was barely seen as separate from the community.
This makes it easier to discover the everyday life of an ancestor because your ancestor's everyday life was barely different from any other man's (or woman's) in that same time period and same geography doing the same type of work. The same is not true of you.
Future generations searching to discover what your everyday life was like will not be able to only refer to history books. Your life, aside from work and where you live, varies greatly from your neighbor’s, even if he/she is in the same kind of job.
Today, we - at least we in the Western world - have come to define our lives with increasingly broader strokes. We no longer fill every waking moment with our job simply to maintain life. We have time to spend with family and friends during a portion of our day which we have dubbed our "personal life". We volunteer our time with churches and charities, we spend time with friends, we throw parties for something as common as a football game, and we shuttle our children to and from activities, and we barely recognize all of this as leisure time.
So be sure when you preserve your important dates, facts and photos you also give future generations a look at all the dimensions that make up who you are. You can accomplish this through a range of options and activities, taking as much or as little time as you wish. If you're ambitious, write an autobiography, or you can do an entire scrapbook album or scrapbook pages showing and telling future generations about you or your family's everyday life in the early 21st century.
Take a look at all of the photos you have of birthdays, holidays, parties, and look into the background of those photos. Chances are you'll find pieces of your everyday life particularly in the background: a television, a computer, a swing set in the backyard, a grill on the patio. Future generations will look at those things and ask, what is that? The answer will be simple if you’ve included a quick caption, jotted down a few journaling lines.
An easy, one book solution to letting future generations know all the facts about you as well as those unique dimensions of your everyday and not so everyday life is with Archival Lifelines - A Lifetime Memory Keeper.
This unique book provides a decade-by-decade glance at 21 life categories, including "Home", "Occupation", "Hobbies", "Friends", "Family", "Faith", and many more. It allows you to focus on details that are often missed with scrapbooking or photo albums alone.
Remember, your life is ancestry in the making, preserve it!
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