06/04/2022
The 2022 Census of Ireland has just been taken and, for the first time, it features a "Time Capsule" section. This is a voluntary section where the person completing the census could choose to leave a message for their descendants, future generations and historians, on a topic of their choice. It will remain confidential until 2122. However, some of the people who filled in this section have uploaded images of what they wrote to social media. Some are heartbreaking and evocative of the world in 2022, some were humorous, many were somewhere in between. Our personal favourite is the person who very thoughfully left a note for the next generation of genealogists in his family. There have been plenty of cases in which I wish we'd had this, as it would have avoided some wild goose chases! We also love this one of Darcy, the Shih Tzu/Maltese mix.
So, what would you have written in your time capsule section if given the chance?!
