I agree, with one exception. If you have family members who are not able to write it down, use the technology to collect their oral history. You can transcribe if needed.
Hey, I am getting way to close in age to those “family members” you describe.
Arthritis in my hands and fingers make writing awkward, painful, and tedious.
But, the adult children and grands are so busy, you know?
Have a lovely younger person (late 30s) helping me do some of the heavy cleaning. Told her today that cigarettes used to cost 25 cents a pack, and gas was only .25 - and she looked at me as if I was deluded.
Even those pushing their 40th decade have no idea how badly they have been screwed by the constantly devaluating dollar. If you try to explain fiat currency, they just don’t get it.
Bread was .19 cents a loaf.
The average income was about $4,500.
When my third child was born, we bought a new car for $1,600, and felt like spendthrifts.
A postage stamp was 4 cents. Hamburger, ground by the corner store butcher, grown by a local farmer, was .35 cents a pound. I used to be able to buy an entire week’s worth of groceries for 20$.
And for those of you who were “upwardly mobile”, a year’s tuition at Harvard University was about $1250 a year.
Put that inflation in your pipe and smoke it!