tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6892358786681938797.post1962928792190362215..comments2024-03-05T11:10:29.953-05:00Comments on My Ancestors and Me: Good Reasons to Tell Family Stories - Sentimental SundayNancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136584654825212359noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6892358786681938797.post-23644190503291042862014-07-10T01:26:31.910-04:002014-07-10T01:26:31.910-04:00You're right, Karen, that sometimes they don&#...You're right, Karen, that sometimes they don't want to hear about old stuff. I guess our job is to make it either brief enough or interesting enough that they can't avoid hearing -- and then hope that when they're older they'll want to read everything we've written! Thanks for stopping by to comment.Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12136584654825212359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6892358786681938797.post-43111793813551331392014-07-07T04:15:54.584-04:002014-07-07T04:15:54.584-04:00True words! Thanks for sharing, Nancy! Unfortunate...True words! Thanks for sharing, Nancy! Unfortunately often children don't like to hear about all these (our) old stuff. My opinion is the more I know about my ancestors the more I know about myself.Karenhttp://vorfahrensucher.denoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6892358786681938797.post-57909844389791465922014-07-06T19:47:54.220-04:002014-07-06T19:47:54.220-04:00Dara, I believe this phrase, "intergeneration...Dara, I believe this phrase, "intergenerational self" is new to me and, I find, more common than I thought. I headed to google to see what I could find. Whew! What a lot of research and writing has been done. New ideas for me to consider as I work on family history! Thanks for leaving a comment.Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12136584654825212359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6892358786681938797.post-11839179855868864082014-07-06T19:43:33.049-04:002014-07-06T19:43:33.049-04:00Wendy, you probably have heard many of the ideas b...Wendy, you probably have heard many of the ideas before. The article is at least a year old and I think the research was done earlier. Other posts have been done about the article, too, but I hadn't read them until I just now googled "intergenerational self" from Dara's comment. <br /><br />You know, whenever someone tells a family history story, I have to remember that the story can be told by someone else with a slightly (or completely) different perspective. So those incomplete stories you heard probably DO have a lot more to them than you heard.<br /><br />Hey, it's not too late for you to start responding to the Book of Me topics! (I'm not keeping up with those posts. To tell the stories well it seems I often need to dig into storage to pull out the collection, the stuffed animal, the whatever to tell a complete story, and these days I don't seem to have the energy to do that and the other family history research I'm working on. Perhaps my children and grandchildren will have to ask my siblings for their versions of the story!) Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12136584654825212359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6892358786681938797.post-54049252009088537812014-07-06T08:03:15.978-04:002014-07-06T08:03:15.978-04:00I don't think I read that article, but I feel ...I don't think I read that article, but I feel like I've heard those ideas before, maybe from another blogger. I don't know. I grew up hearing stories, but now I realize how incomplete those stories were. Surely there were MORE stories never told. It seems each generation told stories of the previous generation, not their own. So we do need to be more conscientious about telling our own -- and I'm the worst offender (see, I should have done that Book of Me challenge).Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17863357756727783017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6892358786681938797.post-40763411176838787152014-07-06T04:45:23.773-04:002014-07-06T04:45:23.773-04:00How very interesting, Nancy, thanks for sharing. T...How very interesting, Nancy, thanks for sharing. This ‘proves’ what I’ve felt all along and blogging their stories seems to even strengthen our ‘intergenerational self’. Dara https://www.blogger.com/profile/16643201998217385573noreply@blogger.com