Some of the many reasons to hire their relatives – and friends of the family often – to help you with your family:
- Your contribution is your rich family history and more interesting to the reader
- The personality of each of her ancestors come through the stories and recollections of contributors
- They are treasures, photos of deceased relatives and old documents, objects in the photo and especially the hand-me-down – some do not even know they exist
- Contribute to commentaries on what is produced is added – again add interest and richness of the family
- When a person wears that help to encourage others
- It can detect errors!
Of course, some families are more interesting and more useful than others – and others may simply be too busy. So do not be discouraged if at first you do not enjoy the support of some people. But keep in touch with them and let them know and can relate to a later date.
It is likely that older parents may be the next – to treat them well!
A good way to get a parent about their memories of a person to ask – biographical material should be a central component of any family history. Experience shows that the biographical material is often the most-watched history material of the family. Some people tend to memories faster than you can say burn! Encourage them to write down their memories of his own words, some others not, are flexible – you can be in a position to say to encourage this, it is everything you write or modify.
Example: I asked my sister, our mother tell the story of when they teach him to kill a chicken farm trying (in preparation for eating fried chicken or grilled) – an excerpt:
“When I was thirteen or fourteen years old, my mother decided I needed to learn, chicken (a necessity in their life or maybe a way to womanhood) to kill … He was the co chicken, put it in your hand put your right foot on the chicken feet, stretched his neck, and inside it is very chopped the head. The body of the goose that failures in all directions. “
Now that gives color to an interesting family history!
If a person gives a contribution to not only say “thank you”, but you should also inform all potential contributors to this – knowing the specific contributions will encourage more contributions.
Give family members a document present, possible contributions. This has a double purpose, as is also a checklist of the materials belong to the history of your family. Here is a list of departure:
- Memory and “stories” about an ancestor – idiosyncrasy, uniqueness
- Old photos – the ancestors, family reunions, pets, houses, etc.
- Digital photos of the hand-me-down artifacts, documents, etc.
- The private correspondence, like letters, old digital image analysis equipment
- Marriage licenses, old documents and legal
- In the military documents and photos
- Obituaries, newspaper articles and other published
- The memory of what was different, “then”
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