What would you put in the census "Time Capsule" segment?

I'm the youngest of 9! not that it matters. Your full of entitlement.

I think photographs and video footage of the current times would be important to people looking back. Thinking very long term it would be fascinating for people to see how we looked, lived and behaved in the past.

Imagine if we could see video footage of the famine or even the Middle Ages or Roman times. Actual footage of historical people like Jesus, Muhammad, King Henry the 8th, Genghis Kahn, the Pharaohs of Egypt etc.

I get up when I want

Except on Wednesdays When I get rudely awakened by the dustmen

I put my trousers on, have a cup of tea And I think about leaving the house

I feed the pigeons, I sometimes feed the sparrows too It gives me a sense of enormous well-being

And then I'm happy for the rest of the day Safe in the knowledge there will always be A bit of my heart devoted to it

I explained that i was a meat eater and and I owned my own home and car.

That this was the year propaganda took over real news and how we were the ones that let the great reset happen.

I'd leave a message to myself.

"If your alive , Corner , and reading this you're very old".

Perhaps I'll set up a gmail address or website and locate a copy of the family photos there. I'll ref it in the census free text field and give the access password.

That way if the primary file gets destroyed there will be a link, and later selfish hoarders will be bypassed.

I'll add my knowledge of the family genealogy going back to the 1901, 1911 census, and info which I expect will be in later ones. I've a small amount of pre-famine info too, and some video of people born in the 19th century. This may tie up loose ends if anyone gives a ****.

Not just family, but info on friends, especially friends overseas too. Might even ref my Boards user name(s), and let them have a gander at this!

What's the current best free place to park such stuff?

That’s interesting. Can’t wait to find out who it will be!

The game, you just lost it

To be fair, the internet was only in its infancy back then. I remember my granny telling me that they only had 7MB broadband when she was a child way back in the 1930s. And that was only because her father worked in IT. Most houses only had dial-up back then.

To better understand traffic flows

That’s the kin€ of stuff I was thinking too. We’ve been working on our family tree a bit since my mother died last year, and Ithink it would be good to put info in for future generations of the family, maybe including some personal details about people if there is space.

I actually think it’s a good idea and it would be a waste not to use it.

i think i'll describe my day... see how it compares to their Sunday in years to come...

Did history judge Paddy Cosgrave:

a) a footnote;

b) a genius and activist for real change:

c) having something in common with Brendan Behan?

Just be aware, every Tom Dick and Harry will be able to see these login details in 100 years time.

Gmail and Ancestry won’t exist when this info is published. It would be like having someone’s telegraph number today. They won’t know what to do with it.

Write whatever you can fit on the form.

Always someone else’s fault with people like you.

I said that I hope they have hover cars by then. I was told to expect them in my lifetime and I would have thought they would be on the way by now.

In a more serious note, I also gave an indication that I am concerned for the future of the human race ... we were recently in and out of an economic crash and then into a pandemic, with Brexit and a war following on, all the while we also have a rapidly progressing climate crisis and no indication that humanity can get its act together to look at our issues on a global scale, instead of trying to look out for separate national identities based on imaginary lines drawn on maps. Ireland has done spectacularly badly in preparing for future challenges, that we all know were coming down the tracks and we seem to be totally vulnerable to adverse changes in external circumstances. I fear we will be fighting over clean air and fresh water in the future and I hope that whoever gets to read the census comments, has had an opportunity to change things for the better, in the meantime.

I think putting something down about how you feel at the moment, is better than putting down historical fact that will be easily and better documented elsewhere.

"Sorry for **** the planet up because of greed, selfishness, stupidity, and wilful ignorance, hopefully things are not too **** now and we managed to turn things around"

I didn't put anything on it because there is nothing to stop the enumerator who only lives a few houses down the road from reading what I wrote.

We should be able to seal the form after filling it in.

You can post it back if you don't want them to read it.

I put in some family history and what we think might be interesting to someone researching us. We put in a message of hope and love for our descendents too.