Over several decades I have accumulated much stuff: mental, physical and digital. Sooner or later it will be dispersed. As a general principle, one would like dispersed objects to get into the hands of those who value them. These web pages are made partly to illustrate what sort of thing is available.
"Disperse", of course, has at least two connotations: a negative connotation when we disperse an army because a war is over, a positive connotation when we disperse grass seed on soil prepared to become a lawn. Modern copying technology has, of course, dispersed copies of what were previously single items. It's now "Who wants a copy of the family tree database?" when it used to be "Who wants the family bible?" (Not that this foreshortens squabbles about who gets the family bible!)
In sum, you will find here both lists of unique items like antique train lanterns and copyable items like stories told by ancestors.
There are stories embedded promiscuously in these web pages. They are not "facts" about what happened in the past. I have neither the expertise nor the desire to sift the evidence and deduce from it the facts that underly this collection of stories. Shaping the facts into an easily to understand story is appropriate for speech or writing that is intended to entertain, which is much of my intention. (Another intention of mine is education, to strengthen not the memory but the imagination.)
When we post stuff on the internet who do we think will look at it? When we read stuff on the internet who do we think wrote it? Such questions are usually asked only when it's too late.
In practice they usually amount to how items should be added and deleted, and who should be allowed to look at them? At present users, most often Robin, send me stuff they discover and I add them to the web pages, and anybody who knows the URL can read them. It's not technically difficult to add protection, but there's a cost for users, even if it's only remembering a password. I'm happy to hear suggestions.