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In response to
"I think it's so important to pass on that family oral history. I wish my dad had talked more, and I'm trying to put something together for the g-kids. -- nm"
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Meg
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yeah . . . a couple of things on that IM . . .
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like I said, I wish I could go back and talk to my mom's parents. so much I would like to have known that's perhaps lost to time now . . . and relatedly, i've said several times that I'd like to go back to pre-1985 because my paternal great-grandfather lived to be (well, 1 day shy of) 100. he died in 1985 and I saw him a couple of times prior to that at family reunions. man, i'd love to have been able to sit down and pick his brain for a while. but yeah, the point is that when I was young I just didn't think about stuff like collecting and preserving oral traditions, family histories, and things like that . . .
that being said, I was already thinking about doing something before too long to remedy that. As most of ST might be aware, I finish my college career in the next couple of months. Our department has some nice digital audio recorders. I think that I'm going to ask if I could check one out a couple of times after I graduate and sit down with some of my family members . . . my mom, her sister, maybe a couple of my siblings . . . and a few extended family members like my cousin's uncle and my cousin's cousin (the folks thru his dad that is separate from my more direct personal family stuff) . . . and some other folks just to talk to them and record stories of the past and have their voices preserved on audio. i've really been getting into family history stuff in the last couple of years (you should see the family tree that my sis and I have been working on!) . . . I really want to preserve some stuff now for future generations. I worry that my nephews will grow up not knowing so much and being poorer for not knowing . . .
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