tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post7755887289866786195..comments2024-03-27T06:22:50.868+01:00Comments on From My Mental Library: Guest Post By My Mum: A Good AdviceLibrarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-87671555099864481232014-02-16T05:27:29.823+01:002014-02-16T05:27:29.823+01:00Meike I back up my blog (by exporting it) regularl...Meike I back up my blog (by exporting it) regularly but when I get back to the UK this year I intend to start having them printed. I know a number of people who have done this (for holiday blogs and blogs when they have been working abroad) and they are super. My blog started as a sort of diary and information bulletin anyway. GBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10289400344300258872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-74656872889445834692014-02-15T09:51:53.533+01:002014-02-15T09:51:53.533+01:00Hello Kristi, thank you for your kindly comments, ...Hello Kristi, thank you for your kindly comments, you are quite right in every single item! Memory is a very versatile thing.Meikes Mumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-90313636018754285932014-02-15T09:49:06.639+01:002014-02-15T09:49:06.639+01:00Thank you for your kindly comment, I agree, that o...Thank you for your kindly comment, I agree, that old photos are only valuable, when they are labeled.Meikes Mumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-5444663773494015252014-02-15T09:46:39.660+01:002014-02-15T09:46:39.660+01:00Hello Graham, you are quite right, my husband and ...Hello Graham, you are quite right, my husband and I are the last persons of our generation now, and we also can see the diminishing around us. The more it is important to take the last chance to pose questions for the young ones.Meikes Mumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-5151072936061456222014-02-15T09:43:20.642+01:002014-02-15T09:43:20.642+01:00Hello Frances, thank you for your kindly comment a...Hello Frances, thank you for your kindly comment and your understanding. We have a lot of old photo-albums from my and my husband's parents, but fortunately all superscribed and marked with names of persons and places, and that is a good part of history als well.Meikes Mumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-86100847631977272042014-02-15T09:38:34.936+01:002014-02-15T09:38:34.936+01:00Hello Julie, thank you for your kindly comment. Th...Hello Julie, thank you for your kindly comment. The same with us: My husband and I are the last persons of the family in our generation.Meikes Mumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-32911421377551213072014-02-15T09:33:37.537+01:002014-02-15T09:33:37.537+01:00Thank you for your kindly comment, you are quite r...Thank you for your kindly comment, you are quite right encouraging your children!Meikes Mumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-2872811507118789842014-02-15T09:32:10.753+01:002014-02-15T09:32:10.753+01:00Hello Kay, I'm glad, that you love my post, th...Hello Kay, I'm glad, that you love my post, thank you for your kindly comment.Meikes Mumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-37838885292514930712014-02-15T09:30:14.625+01:002014-02-15T09:30:14.625+01:00My mother was blind in her last ten years, and we ...My mother was blind in her last ten years, and we gave her a cassette recorder to talk her thoughts, when seh was alone. I still have this dear tape, on which she is talking, singing, speaking little poems she made herself. It is really a treasure for me.Meikes Mumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-19284350558290861122014-02-15T08:22:11.953+01:002014-02-15T08:22:11.953+01:00Last but not least, when was the picture taken. On...Last but not least, when was the picture taken. On some pictures, the date is printed on the back automatically, but on many more, there is no date. We can guess quite well more or less when something happened by looking at the clothes and hairstyles of people, but not always. My Auntie Jean who lives in Chapeltown always writes the who-is-who on the back of each photo she sends me. Very good of her, I think!Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-52460714132196580182014-02-15T01:48:36.212+01:002014-02-15T01:48:36.212+01:00"Use the chance to learn about the past, othe..."Use the chance to learn about the past, otherwise it will be lost for all times."...Your mother gives good advice Arian. I know we are coming to a time when there won't be boxes of family photos to sift through but those of us who have them should take the opportunity to label our photos as much as possible so that succeeding generations will know who was who, what was what and where was that.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-10052115098163637502014-02-14T18:24:36.459+01:002014-02-14T18:24:36.459+01:00I wonder how yours and your brother's blogs wi...I wonder how yours and your brother's blogs will be preserved, Graham. One day in the far future, one of your descendants may read them, and they will then know quite a lot about your daily (and not-so-daily) lives, the places you lived at, the people you knew and the things you did.Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-22605532634633842552014-02-14T11:25:53.610+01:002014-02-14T11:25:53.610+01:00Well Meike's Mum I, too, have reached the stag...Well Meike's Mum I, too, have reached the stage in my life where there are few of the generations before me left (and even my generation is diminishing). Your advice is very sound and I hope that the generations following us will ask as much as they can. Much that has happened in our family has been reasonably well documented but, so far, neither my brother no I have any grand-children. Perhaps there will not be anyone to ask questions in the future.GBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10289400344300258872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-87200072677465995642014-02-13T19:10:55.168+01:002014-02-13T19:10:55.168+01:00That's a shame about all the photos. I am sure...That's a shame about all the photos. I am sure you'll recognize some people yourself, or there will be a family resemblance, but those with no identity to them are really useless.Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-25463666495916539582014-02-13T19:10:03.818+01:002014-02-13T19:10:03.818+01:00Oh yes, human memory is very unreliable - ask anyo...Oh yes, human memory is very unreliable - ask anyone who has ever had to take a statement from an eyewitness to an accident or crime!<br />I find it interesting to compare what different bits about the same event different people do remember, and how some events have completely slipped my mind, without them being traumatic. My sister and I are only one year apart and so experienced a lot of exactly the same things during our childhood and youth, and yet we have perceived some of them quite differently.Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-27884943043200812652014-02-13T19:08:03.450+01:002014-02-13T19:08:03.450+01:00True; how are we to know the "unknown unknown...True; how are we to know the "unknown unknowns"?Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-69822596236076056742014-02-13T19:07:44.224+01:002014-02-13T19:07:44.224+01:00Glad you enjoyed this post and can identify with i...Glad you enjoyed this post and can identify with it so well, Julie!Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-10991755741829878242014-02-13T19:06:58.237+01:002014-02-13T19:06:58.237+01:00They should also ask you, as the generation closes...They should also ask you, as the generation closest to their own, but I am sure they do that as well.Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-54411709861965578692014-02-13T19:06:26.177+01:002014-02-13T19:06:26.177+01:00Of course your mountain photos are among those I m...Of course your mountain photos are among those I meant, Kay!<br />I am looking forward to a "Spring On Arabia Mountain" post from you soon :-)Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-9213898773177940892014-02-13T19:05:34.549+01:002014-02-13T19:05:34.549+01:00Voices are so strong in evoking the image of a per...Voices are so strong in evoking the image of a person in us, aren't they! The voice of my late husband was one of the things I loved about him particularly. I have no recording of his voice, and I am not sure if I'd be able to listen to it if I did.Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-56824233484363818112014-02-13T11:49:41.960+01:002014-02-13T11:49:41.960+01:00I so identify with your mum, Meike. As my uncle re...I so identify with your mum, Meike. As my uncle reached the end of his life two years ago, I tried in vain to garner fragments of family history from his increasingly muddled brain, but to no avail. I inherited boxes full of photos, but all without names. Without identity, they have lost any value they might have had. Well done your mum, for such good advice.Frances Garroodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10614916006798375706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-29245976868710718042014-02-13T05:07:06.373+01:002014-02-13T05:07:06.373+01:00that would be "memories are!"that would be "memories are!"Thickethouse.wordpresshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17187303460677067276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-32045493402216138712014-02-13T05:06:31.895+01:002014-02-13T05:06:31.895+01:00And one other comment I would like to make is this...And one other comment I would like to make is this: memories is a bit tricky, a bit imprecise, a bit deceptive at times......My husband and I were both family historians and sometimes we went to many different members of his family (for instance) to ask about events in which each person questioned had been a participant. One thing we asked about was their escape from Hungary in early '57. Every person had somewhat different memories. They did not even agree on who was the driving force behind the decision to leave, let alone the different things that happened during the few days it took to reach the border and cross it. It was very surprising for us, but also very enlightening.Thickethouse.wordpresshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17187303460677067276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-71161468063579669492014-02-13T05:02:59.341+01:002014-02-13T05:02:59.341+01:00I so agree with your mother......I did listen and ...I so agree with your mother......I did listen and my family talked lots about old stories. But after my mother died I realized there were many questions that had never come up, questions that only she could answer...I think it may be difficult to know which questions one will wish to have asked when it is too late, but at least it is something about.Thickethouse.wordpresshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17187303460677067276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-2588421549073060922014-02-13T03:08:41.461+01:002014-02-13T03:08:41.461+01:00ps
thanks to your mother for a heartfelt postxxps <br />thanks to your mother for a heartfelt postxxJulie Whitmore Potteryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12283540996942265818noreply@blogger.com