Producing this archive became a project of mine during 2013-14, collecting photos, researching family ties and making a presentation of the results. I had accumulated a wealth of information about my family history during my lifetime, however, as in many families this information was passed down verbally or displayed by personal example more so than in written form. I was fortunate to have some written history from family members. My brother Ron Trickett and our uncle Kenneth Trickett had previously researched and published some family historical information. I was given the advantage of having access to many special photographs, records and memorabilia. I want to thank brother Ron especially for the numerous Leebrick and Trickett photos he gave me access to use. My desire in producing this archive was to save some family history and family treasures for my children, grandchildren and other family members.As I approached my mid sixties and after losing many dear relatives over the years, I found myself compelled to obtain more written and visual information to pass on to my children and family. Most of my working career was spent in the printing industry in small commercial print shops. Utilizing process cameras, darkroom techniques, printing presses and having produced a variety of printed materials over the years, has left me even now with some desire to express myself graphically. While the fast changing computer age quickly passes me by and having some solid information to start with, I decided I would try to compile this archive.The material contained within my archive was gathered from many sources. I was fortunate that my brother Ron, whom I could term “our family genealogist”, had researched and amassed our family histories several years prior to my starting this archive. He had already eliminated the “chaff” so to speak, by researching and writing his own genealogy. With lengthy and hopefully judicious research on the internet, numerous resources can be found including interesting family records, photos and artwork. One such resource is Ancestry(dot)Com, where I found many family connections.Broadly speaking with any genealogy there are and probably always will be errors made in any such endeavor. Realizing this I am aware there are differences and errors in my own archive. Mistakes in birth or death dates, in the chronology of events, as well as naming or renaming differences are bound to exist. I am not a trained editor or proofreader, nor a writer or English major. I am not a computer whiz and my archive has been cut-up, cut-down, pasted and re-pasted numerous times from numerous sources. I have tried to correct what I truly knew was incorrect and hopefully no entries have been lost or dramatically changed. I did try throughout this archive to get corroborating evidence from at least one or more sources. When I could not trace an item further I left what I had hoping someone else could glean more or correct my findings. I sent off to get certain things, i.e. a death certificate or a military discharge form. Several phone calls to Arlington Cemetery and other cemeteries clarified some facts as well.“My Family Archive” was made to honor my parents Edison and Joyce Trickett. They always gave me loving care, joy and shared a real sense of family in my life. It is given as well to my children and grandchildren, my siblings and relatives with love, to enjoy and share the sense of family pride, strength of character and happiness they gave me. About My Family Archive
A genealogy and a family history can be considered by some as two different things . A genealogy tends to be a listing of the bloodline within a family's genetic lines. And, while a family history can certainly contain one's lineage it also tends to deal with the why, what, where and when, within that family line. Others have likened a genealogy to the bones of a family and a family history puts some meat on the bones. I agree with this description and in "My Family Archive" I have tried to add some meat to the bones of our families histories. 