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.

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The Trevorrow family
St Just in Penwith, and Grass Valley

Parents

Hedley Vingoe. Coal miner in cap lamp holding a pipe, dinner pail slung at his side, P V & K Coal Company, Clover Mine, Lejunior, Harlan County, Kentucky; from the 1946 federal survey of coal miners' housing conditions made when the U.S. government operated the mines.
Hedley Vingoe Trevorrow1910 to 1984
Ivy Trevorrow1912 to 1997

Brenda Joan Olds

born Trevorrow

living

Living. Details are shown only with this person’s agreement, so this page carries their name and their place in the family and nothing else.

Brothers and sisters

Kenneth Hedley Trevorrow1936 to 2009

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.