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Your Family Stories
Family stories provide a link to past generations. By recalling and writing down the stories your parents and grandparents told (oftentimes over-and-over!), you can preserve the legacy of your ancestors for sharing with future generations. Likewise, writing down special stories from your own lifetime will link you to family members of the future.
To "collect" your family stories, begin with elders who are still alive. Interview them with an audio or videotape, then transcribe the tapes onto paper for preservation in your ethical will. Begin by simply asking them . . .
For your own life stories, think about what you'd like remembered by family members in the future. Then audio or videotape your favorite stories about happenings in your life as well as transcribe them for your ethical will.
Take time to reflect and recall:
What stories do you tell about yourself?
What stories do you want your children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren to tell about you?
What stories do you want friend who survive you to tell?
To "collect" your family stories, begin with elders who are still alive. Interview them with an audio or videotape, then transcribe the tapes onto paper for preservation in your ethical will. Begin by simply asking them . . .
"Tell me the story about . . ."
For your own life stories, think about what you'd like remembered by family members in the future. Then audio or videotape your favorite stories about happenings in your life as well as transcribe them for your ethical will.
Take time to reflect and recall:
What stories do you tell about yourself?
What stories do you want your children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren to tell about you?
What stories do you want friend who survive you to tell?
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