Imagine 200 years from now.What would ancestors find in your belongings?

I have naked photos of myself. It doesn’t trouble me to think that someone might find them long after I’m gone. That person would see someone who’d been comfortable with her looks and confident enough to have fun on a nude beach.

I have really pretty jewelry, which I hope some other lady will enjoy.

I have a framed copy of the inaugural Form 1040, from 1913. I think just about anyone would think it’s interesting and wonder why it had been special to me.

Honestly, most of the stuff we have all done on the web will persist.

I don’t own anything that would embarrass me, and I own very little that will last 200 years, except maybe some pottery or paintings, and that only if my descendants really want it for some weird reason.

I have a photo of JFK on his final trip to Texas. It is his motorcade driving by a bunch of school kids.

Also, I have dug into my past and hope that someone can make use of the genealogy and the leads I have generated.

Ice cream wrappings, choc boxes and perfume bottles.

Honestly, I can’t think of a single thing that will embarrass me in 200 years.~

20 years from now it might be embarrassing, 200 years from now who cares?

Stuff I’ve written. I keep journals like a banshee.

They’ll find strontium-90.

Wage demands & a cellar full of dead butlers

A lot of crafts stuff, a lot of jewelry, some crafts I’ve done (decoupage), some art my mom has done (oil paintings), books, fabric, sewing machine. No journals, yet. Lots of photos.

A lot of 3–400 yo antiques.

Back in the 70’s Reader’s Digest had a hilarious cartoon spoofing the Egyptian Pyramid exhibition. I looked and can’‘t find it today. It was a modern bathroom interpreted by Egyptian tomb standards. The only thing I remember clearly was they determined that the toilet seat went around the neck and the lid formed some sort of ceremonial armor.

In any case, would anyone today be embarrassed by something an ancestor had in 1816?

Perhaps they would be embarrassed to know that their ancestors owned people, @ibstubro. Then again, perhaps not.

Thousands of photographs I’ve taken and stored in boxes.

I burned the nudes.

My ancestors…came before me.

I keep a diary that I write in daily. That may be interesting for my descendants. I also have hundreds of photos. I do communicate with pen pals, so the letters may be interesting.
I don’t think I have anything too embarrassing. My old diary does really make me cringe, so thay would probably be the most embarrassing thing.
Apart from that 2014 diary, I think I would be fine.

Learn from history or repeat it, @CWOTUS.

OMG @Jeruba! Good catch! Totally negates this question!

I noticed that as well, but she says “descendants” in the details, so I let it slide.