What would you like your Great Grandchildren to know about you?

[SoCalDem]

It's a given that your grandchildren will get to know you..(well most of us...and barring an accident or sudden illness)..But take it out another generation and......

Has anyone here thought about doing a diary of thoughts and ideas..and maybe video so that years later after you are long gone, your descendants or future family members could "get to know you"??

As someone who has no parents or grandparents, but DOES have grown kids, I often wonder how WE will be remembered in years to come..

My kids are not parents, so it may be a moot point, but maybe we all ought to set the record straight and tell them things "from the horse's mouth"....

Every time I run across an old newspaper, it's so much fun to see what was thought of as important, back then :)

[THUNDER HANDS]

1. nope

I'd like to be remembered as MagicRat: the man, the myth, the legend.

Knower of knowldege.
Seer of sights.
Banger of chicks.
Capt. of Industry.
The man.
The myth.
The legend.
MagicRat: No one but Shakespeare could do me justice.

:evilgrin:

[TNDemo]

2. I thought about this about 15-20

years ago and bought my parents and grandparents a nice book to fill out about themselves. It was in the bookstores then and called The Grandparents Book, I think. Not one of those schmucks filled them out and I inherited them back when they died. I guess I will fill them out for my descendants. I would rather leave something like that that I know will be read than personal journals. I discovered a couple of those while cleaning out my mother's house and it made me feel funny about writing down some things. I also look at everything in my house in a different way, thinking about someone else cleaning it all out. I know someone who found homemade porn in the garage that their grandparents had made years earlier. Eeyew.

Good reminder, though. I need to fill out those books (not that I'm a grandmother yet). One thing my mother did do is put a note with several pieces that had been in the family so we would know the history. Also, label those pictures!

[SoCalDem]

3. I had a friend whose mother was an avid reader

and she wrote comments in the margins of books she read.. My friend almost put the books out for sale when she died, and started flipping through some of them looking for letters and money that she might have "hidden" there... She ended up keeping all the books and enjoyed reading them and seeing her mother's comments..

She had some cheesy romance novels and would write stuff like.. "Ugh..stupid"...but she still read them :evilgrin:..

and in some historical books, she "corrected" them.. She had been in wartime Czecholslovkia, and knew more about what happened than the writer sometimes..