Genealogy

 A family member stumbled across a file of correspondance with my grandfather and knew that I would be interested in reading them and sharing them with others in the family. :)  I am still wondering what happened to grandpa's archives, which I have found referenced (not just in my head). "Last week, when filing away the past year's Tattlers... We have accumulated six great volumes of our letters and thier replies" -- JCP April 2, 1984 Here it is a nice summer day and I am home in my office. defensively citing rumors of jellies. sigh. Did actually go to bed at a recent hour. Reading about grief and estates seemed like a good stopping point.  (To be fair there were bits that made me smile too.) Besides I was reading ahead. Trying to use my curiosity as a goad to scan the files. Besides part of the fun may be reminiscing with others over things like preserving food, celebrations, ... So how to best take advantage of the short term loan? I do not have a good process in p...

JCP used to correspond with lots of the family. He'd then write a weekly letter with the highlights of each person/family he'd heard from. He'd then scatter the letter across the family. My earliest memories had him typing  with carbon copies -- only so many copies would fit and each one would be lighter than the previous one. We'd pass the copy between the members of our branch of the family. At some  point he changed to mimeograph. I can remember the smell. We still passed them, but the quality became more even. Was the passing an excuse to get together? ;) Or did we just see each other more? (ignoring the pandemic.) I do not have any copies of the Tattler. I think it would be nice to have a family archive of them. I suspect it would be nice to have images and a text transcriptions. Building an index would be more of a challenge. Could we start it and then automate? What should it include? people, crops, milestones, and?  A down and dirty solution could be to  use...