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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 411844" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>The tape recorder is a wonderful idea! When I was a kid, I had no interest in family history at all! I was around my older relatives all the time and couldn't even imagine that they had ever been young, raised their own families, lead very interesting lives. It never even occurred to me to ask them. And now that I'm older I find myself trying to piece a lot of it together, where they came from, how certain people were related to us, trying to validate a few old family stories. And it's sad to think that everyone who could have answered my questions is gone now! What I wouldn't give to have one more day with my grandmother, just to ask her questions and get her to talk to me about when she was young! Even if your own children don't seem too interested in it all now, they will be!</p><p> </p><p>I finally joined Ancestry.com and I'm doing research and getting it all down and will print it out for my children. You can tap into other people's "Trees" too and get information from them. One of my cousins has done very extensive research on my dad's side and posted old family pictures that I never even knew existed. I now know what my great-great-grandfather looked like! Fascinating stuff when you get in to it!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 411844, member: 1883"] The tape recorder is a wonderful idea! When I was a kid, I had no interest in family history at all! I was around my older relatives all the time and couldn't even imagine that they had ever been young, raised their own families, lead very interesting lives. It never even occurred to me to ask them. And now that I'm older I find myself trying to piece a lot of it together, where they came from, how certain people were related to us, trying to validate a few old family stories. And it's sad to think that everyone who could have answered my questions is gone now! What I wouldn't give to have one more day with my grandmother, just to ask her questions and get her to talk to me about when she was young! Even if your own children don't seem too interested in it all now, they will be! I finally joined Ancestry.com and I'm doing research and getting it all down and will print it out for my children. You can tap into other people's "Trees" too and get information from them. One of my cousins has done very extensive research on my dad's side and posted old family pictures that I never even knew existed. I now know what my great-great-grandfather looked like! Fascinating stuff when you get in to it! [/QUOTE]
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