Keeping Family Stories Alive

Sooner or later we all want to know more than scattered facts about our family heritage.  Yet, with today's hurried and mibile lifestyles, we have lost the occasions for reminiscing and storytelling that used to be a part of every family's daily life.  Family anecdotes give shape to our past, connecting us with our roots and a sense of our own identity.  No matter how simple, complex or incomplete, every family's stories deserve to be recorded and remembered.  It's a process that benefits both listener and teller.
 
In this book, Vera Rosenbluth offers many pratical and useful techniques for reviving and keeping family memories alive.  The book includes a section on the uses of family stories outside the family - in seniors' care facilities and ethnic associations, and for school oral history projects.