Category Archives: memorabilia

What to keep and what to leave behind

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The ABC has recently been promoting a new series featuring Shaun Micallef called Eve of Destruction. The premise of the series is to discover from a number of celebrities what is really important to them. I have seen a similar scenario on Antiques Roadshow where the experts are asked to select the three most important things they would take if they had to leave their home suddenly. It seems to me that the ‘things’ themselves are not necessarily what is … Continue reading

Jane Gun’s Book.

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I was sorting through papers after my aunt, Lyn Young, died when suddenly a mysterious package fell out. It was a tiny, homemade book measuring only 6cm by 4.5cm tied with green string with the word ‘Pope’ on the spine. Since then, I have spent some time discovering who owned this tiny piece, why did they make it and why did my aunt have it? Sadly, as often happens she is not here to ask anymore, and no other members … Continue reading

How do you decide?

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How do you decide? Over the past few years, I’ve been confronted by the same choices many of us are having to make, or have made, in relation to our family’s belongings and indeed our own, if we’re downsizing. Being family history researchers is a wonderful calling, but at times like this it can also be a curse of sorts. How do we decide what we should keep as part of the family archive, what needs to be recycled, and … Continue reading

Celebrations

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Slides and their boxes I was recently looking through some of those grey archive boxes that are often used to store a variety of things, not necessarily in proper archival conditions. I was actually looking for some old slides, which I wanted to convert to images that could be used in a presentation. In the 1970s I took several sets of holiday photos using slide format rather than prints. Unlike the speed and ease with which you can now assess, … Continue reading