July 24, 2013 – 1 Chronicles 7:6 – 7:40

These families talk of 20 or 25 thousand names listed in the archives for families.  Those books would have to be huge.  You wonder where those archives were kept, if each family had their own.  It is hard to locate records that are 100 or more years old so imagine how hard it would be then to keep records.

It makes you wonder about all the information, like what I am writing now, that is only electronic, that would be lost if something happened to electronics.  There is a show on TV where that is the premise.  I don’t watch it, but I haven’t actually thought about what that would mean.  How much data do we have out there that there is actually no hard copy for.  For 1000’s of years, people wrote to each other and were able to keep those letters and be remembered.  People communicate today and for 99% of it, there is no foot print, no tangible thing that said it actually happened, no way for someone to look at that in 100 years and see what you said to another.  We won’t be around to see what that means to those that are trying to figure out who we were, but it makes you think about what they will think of us.