2009 "Who We Are/Who We Were"



Although the family tree has the aspect of a hobby it's also a serious attempt on my part to map out my/our family.

Nobody before or since seems to have taken a serious interest in those that "came before." Sadly my time on the planet can't last forever and there's so much detail in my head, on paper and here on "the web". Sadly too there's nobody who's really serious about all this stuff now. If I'm not careful much will get lost. Lost it will be because much of it will be out of reach unless the searcher really gets hard to work.

The following lists the whereabouts of it all:

1) I have a Genes Reunited tree.

2)Two, small, red, three-ringed binders contain the Hutton story from 1939 - 1975. Written by me in the 70s it now begs to be brought up to date - 34 more years have elapsed.

3)I've kept a journal since March 1975 - most in a cardboard box written on ordianry "three-holed" paper and more recently on a yearly basis in perhaps 10+ notebooks.

4)Several hand-drawn "trees" on Bristol board.

5)A "bankers box" full of miscellaneous family related stuff.

6)Two shoeboxes of photos and three? CDs with the beginnings of an orderly collection of captioned photos.

Gather up that lot and you have pretty much all there that is currently known about us Huttons.

Now ................. whether or not Mitchell or Martin or Alex or Marc Andre or Ian or Emily ever become the family arhcivist I'll likely never know. But to lose it all would be a sad, sad thing. Surely somebody, somewhere, sometime will get the genealogy bug ?

Apart from the above six, who else is there? Cliff, Glennys, Andrea (Sister Toni's gone missing) are all that are left of the "oldies" .................. ideed we are thin on the ground!!

Oddly, cousin Paul Horrocks has a Genes Reunited "account" and cousin Michael Fuller, Sherri's son too but getting in touch with them will get harder as time passes!

And .......................... who will access this blog entry and seek the above stuff?