Hey genea-philes - it's SATURDAY NIGHT!! Time for more GENEALOGY FUN!!
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to respond to Bill West's Genealogist's Time Capsule Challenge - read his post on West in New England. Answer these questions:
1. Make a list of what you would put in a time capsule and why you'd choose each item.
2, What would you use for the time capsule? Where would you have it kept?
3. Write a blog post with the above information. If you don't have a blog, send your time capsule idea to me as a comment to this post or email it to me. If you do have a blog, make sure to send me the link to your time capsule post. (West in New England.)
Thanks, Bill, for the great idea!
Here's mine:
1) My list of things I would put into the time capsule (labelled, of course...):
* My manual typewriter -- how we used to type things up.
* A fountain pen and inkwell (sealed) -- before ballpoint pens...
* My slide rule -- how I calculated everything in high school and college
* my grandfather's pocket watch -- from the 1890s
* my aeronautical vestpocket handbook (from United Technologies) -- useful information about everything aeronautical in the 1970s
* my Hewlett-Packard HP-45 calculator -- what I used before computers
* my memoirs -- my life and times, probably boring
* a collection of all of the Seaver/Richmond Family Journal issues -- for posterity!
* my Betty Carringer ancestry book (in paper and on a CD) -- for posterity!
* my genealogy database (on a USB drive) -- forp osterity, and to see if the USB drive can still be read.
2) I would use a fairly large metal box, seal it with duct tape, and write on it "For my great-grandchild to open when s/he reaches age 12." I'd also stipulate in my will that my daughter was to keep this in a safe and cool place and to open it with her grandchild (if she lives that long) and that they should have a family get-together to talk about great-grandpa Randy's family history.
3) Done! Now I'll send the link to Bill West at West in New England..
Your selection is fun :D
ReplyDeleteDuct tape! Heheheh, the stickum will become nonfunctional within a few years. Since there is no way to predict what weather-vulnerable locale your daughter's family may reside in in the future, why not a bronze or titanium sphere with a hatch that is soldered closed?
Any paper items must be printed on 100% cotton rag paper.
Would suggest including a device with its charging accoutrements that can read the USB . . . .