Letters and legacy
Letters, values and the things you'd like passed on.
Start with these
Four habits for keeping family memories
Ask, record, keep, share. Simple steps drawn from the way national archives look after their collections.
- Ask the questions only one person can answer.
- Record who, what, when and where, and who told you.
- Keep three copies on two kinds of storage, with one somewhere else.
- Share copies, with a note for someone who wasn’t there.
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Ways to put what matters to you into words, for the people you love to keep.