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We describe practices associated with dealing with inherited family archives; the creation of new artefacts, such as scrapbooks and collections of letters, out of repurposed archived materials; and the recording of one\u2019s memoirs. Our analysis leads us to emphasise a distinction between \u2018personal\u2019 memory and memory \u2018for family\u2019, noting that while memory is used in the construction of a sense of one\u2019s own history, and in enabling personal reflection on the past, the work that is bound up with processing archives and producing new artefacts is heavily influenced by a desire to make them accessible and relevant to children and grandchildren, both now and in the future. The tending to, and crafting of, these materials can be understood as a means of creating a \u2018joint\u2019 past and reinforcing a wider family narrative. 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