A private archive

The Trevorrow family

Seven generations, from the tin mines of St Just in Penwith to the gold mines of Grass Valley, California. Forty one people, a hundred and one things they did, and the photographs that survive.

This is a demonstration, so the passphrase is printed here: . On the real archive it would be whatever you choose, and it would not be printed anywhere.

The passphrase here is checked in your browser, which keeps out anyone who finds the address but not anyone who opens the developer tools. The built version checks it at the edge and sets a signed cookie, so the pages are never sent to a browser that has not passed. That is a real difference and it is worth saying out loud rather than implying.

Wikimedia Commons, CC0
The Trevorrow family
St Just in Penwith, and Grass Valley

Everyone

All 41 people in the archive, in one list. Of those, 11 have a photograph, because freely licensed portrait photography effectively stops around 1946 and the early generations are the ones with faces. The 13 living relatives who have not agreed to appear in full are here by name and place in the family only, marked private, with nothing of theirs counted.

Names, occupations, and the places people were born or died.

Order

41 peopleFiled under family name, then first name. Most of this family carries one surname, so inside that group it reads as an alphabet of first names.

Bennetts

2 people

Chenoweth

1 person

Ellis

1 person

Olds

1 person

Trelease

1 person

Trevorrow

33 people

Vingoe

2 people

The 11 photographs in this list are public domain archival portraits of real people who are not these people. Sources: Wikimedia Commons (U.S. National Archives), Public domain; Wikimedia Commons, CC0; Wikimedia Commons, Public domain. Each one carries its full credit, with a link to the file it came from, on that person’s own page.

An invented family, built to show how this works. The photographs are real public domain archival portraits of real people who are not these people, and each one credits its archive. Freely licensed portrait photography effectively stops around 1946, which is why the earliest generations are rich and the recent ones are empty mounts. On your own archive, those are where your photographs go. What is real and what is not.