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A LIFE IN OBJECTS
When I pass on and members of my family have to clear out my house, they will find my family history research and many treasured possessions. I tell them about my research into our ancestry, but their lives are too busy at the moment to really appreciate it all. I am lucky to have some items that belonged to my parents, grandparents and even great grandparents, and I want my family to know why I’ve kept them and their history. Perhaps they will also want to know about my life, as I have wanted to discover the lives of my ancestors. How I wish that I’d asked more questions when my near ancestors were still alive.
Inspired by the BBC Radio 4 and British Museum project , I went round the house and took photographs of anything I’d inherited and treasured objects I’d collected in my lifetime, and am now writing a history of my own life in 100 objects. Whether it will get to 100 I don’t know,
