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Family History and Oral Genealogy: Going Beyond Names and Dates
Names and dates build a family tree. Voices and stories give it life. These articles explore oral history, genealogy, immigration stories, cultural heritage, and the voice-first work of turning a dry lineage into something your descendants will actually listen to.
Your Family History Is Disappearing — Here Is How to Save It
Family knowledge is vanishing quietly — not in dramatic losses, but in the slow forgetting of details only one person knows. Here is what is at risk and what you can do about it.
Easter Traditions Worth Recording This Year
Easter brings together grandparents, parents, cousins, and kids in the same room — often the only time all year. Here's why it's one of the best moments to capture real family stories, and exactly what to record.
Family History Is More Than Names and Dates
Genealogy gives you the scaffolding of a family's history. The actual history — what it felt like to live those lives — only exists in stories. Here is why that distinction matters.
How Oral History Can Strengthen Family Identity
Families with strong oral traditions — where stories are told and retold across generations — have a measurably different sense of who they are. Here is how recording preserves and strengthens that tradition.
How to Capture the Stories Behind Your Family Tree
A family tree is a map. The stories are the territory. Here is how to go beyond the names and dates — capturing the human experience of the people in your family history while the people who remember them are still here.
How to Record Stories at a Family Reunion
A family reunion puts multiple generations in the same room — a rare opportunity to capture stories that exist nowhere else. Here is how to make the most of it.
How to Preserve Family History Even If You Are Not a Genealogist
You do not need to be a genealogist to preserve your family's history. The most valuable preservation is not about records and trees — it is about voices and stories.
How to Preserve Family Traditions, Recipes, and Stories in Audio Form
Family traditions and recipes are more than instructions — they are stories, and stories are best preserved in voice. Here is how to capture the living context behind your family's most cherished practices before it disappears.
Preserving Your Immigrant Family's Stories and Heritage
Immigrant families carry stories that exist nowhere else — not in history books, not in public archives, not in any record except the memory of the people who lived them. When that generation is gone, those stories vanish unless someone captures them first.
Recording Family Stories in Another Language
When elders speak most naturally in a language the younger generation may not fully understand, recording in the native language preserves what translation alone cannot: the rhythm, emotion, and identity carried in their mother tongue.
Recording Your Faith Story for Your Family
Your faith did not arrive all at once. It was shaped by moments, people, questions, and decisions that your children and grandchildren deserve to hear about — in your own voice, in your own words.
Save the Stories Behind the Photos
Every family photograph has a story behind it that only a few people know. Here is why those stories matter — and how to capture them before the people who know them are gone.