I'm so excited that I'm going to do this! My mother went to England with her sister in 1929 aged 24 and travelled all over. She wrote journals and one of them is extensive for 3 months of that journey. That is the top right! I am going to type into a Word Manuscript, from that book for one project and the following project is for the one on the left which is a whole year! She was involved in so many interesting events during that year so I'm keen to get to those pages. Her sister decided from one of these events 'The Oxford Group" that communism suited her and left for Russia where she lived till she died about 15 years ago! There are also old photo albums that I can transfer some photos to illustrate the words. This is a project where I am going to proffer the story to a publisher who may publish this for public reading - hopefully!
The words are relatively easy to read - bottom right - but some words are impossible!
Oh this will be a labor of love I am sure. What a treasure to have. It is so wonderful to do these types of things--and so much easier today with computers as opposed to years ago with typewriters ; ) Good luck and ENJOY.
@digitalrn I might read about my mother meeting her second husband. She fell in love with him in England but he married her best friend! After 44 years they met up again and married - both partners had passed away!
What an incredible journey for you to start out on, Maggie! At first glance, I thought that you were going to take a trip and follow the route that your mother did. Wonderful that you will have this chance.
@lyno John bought me a app that you can talk into and it types the words but I think it will be too muddling as there are quite a few words I can't make out. So I'm just typing!
Nice collage. Sounds like a fantastic endeavor and a wonderful way to immortalize your mother and yourself as an author. I just know you will do a great job. You have a very creative mind and you are good at narrating a story. Good luck.
@maggiemae As they say, "Rome was not built in a day" Take your time and breaks, go on google earth and see what the areas look like now and keep on enjoying your Mum's adventure :)
Hooray for diary writers everywhere!!!! So exciting for you Maggiemae & such a worthwhile project to do for the whole family.We will love to go with you on your journey of discovery! I think people were very colonial in the twenties ...the Commonwealth & all that so they would call people natives. Good luck & if you need to do research in the UK come & stay with me !!!!! Would be fantastic!
Awesome collage. I wish you and your brother all the best of luck with the project! Sounds like a lot of fun :) Looking forward to seeing it on our bookshelves :)
What an interesting project and I love your collage showing these wonderful journals. I am involved in ancestry research quite extensively and along with 365 am working on many projects SLOWLY but surely ;-) These journals are treasures for ancestry researchers as well.
what an exciting idea. I always wished I would have tape recorded stories from my husband's mom who was a war bride, worked in an underground war room area in London and lived thru air raids and eating really ugly stuff to survive. Two of her boyfriends were pilots who never came back and my father-in-law( USA )drove vehicles for generals and majors around London and I believe were encamped in Bushy Park.
How awesome to have something like this that your Mom wrote. I hope you get it published. Have you read it before? Good for you to type this out and if anything preserve it.
WOW MAGGIE! That is going to be a huge undertaking but well worth it!!! You'll be documenting history! I so hope that you will find someone who will see this treasure so that the rest of us can read it!
Wow, what a fantastic project, I have only just caught up with your pictures (been a bit slack lately) and realised what you are doing. You are going to have an amazing journey. My mother didn't keep a journal but when she turned 90 I did get her to write her "memories" - she started at the earliest memory and kept going. I typed it up in Blurb (a self publishing site) and printed it for Christmas Presents for all the family! I learnt so much about our family history doing this.
@judithdeacon Thats great Judith - what so many people said to me they should have done with their own mothers! Interesting about the 'blurb' - must investigate it!
@bmnorthernlight Thanks for your comment here and others elsewhere! It is so interesting - I could spend all day doing this but have got to stop to get things done!
November 6th, 2012
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