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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.
What Future Generations Actually Want to Know About Your Life
Your grandchildren and great-grandchildren will want to know things about you that you have never been asked. Here is what they will most want — and how to give it to them.
What Grandchildren Wish They Had Asked Their Grandparents
The war stories never told. The recipes never written down. The family history that lived in one person's memory and died with them. Here is what grandchildren wish they had asked — and what you can still ask if you have the chance.
What Is an Oral History and How Do You Start One?
Oral history is the practice of recording people telling their own stories in their own words. You do not need academic training to do it. Here is what oral history is, where it came from, and how your family can start one today.
Why Every Family Needs More Than a Photo Album
Photo albums are how most families preserve their history. But photographs without stories are faces without names. Here is what families lose by relying on photographs alone — and what to build alongside them.