Preserve your family history now rather than later. We all
have busy lives, whether by choice or by necessity. Yet, we need to make time
to preserve our future desires for the past. Many people uncover an interest in
family history in their later years. By then, many of their elders have passed
on. If we take the time to document the information of interest when it is in
its prime, we will benefit the most. While our lives are hectic and we may
think time will soon free up and allow us to accomplish this feat, the only way
this will truly happen is if we sit down and set aside the time in our busy
schedule to interview those elders who carry the stories that may be lost if we
don’t act now. As archivist Aaron Holt has stated, “It only takes three
generations to lose a piece of oral family history.”1 Save yourself
the heartache and preserve your history for the whole family as well as future
generations. It will only take a couple of hours and will open new doors to the
past that you never knew existed.
Your family history is out there waiting for you. Let us help you discover it!
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