Family history Articles

Articles about family history — legacy preservation, AI, and memory.

• Recording Family Recipes Before They Die With the Cook

  The recipe in your grandmother's head is not the recipe on the card in the drawer. Everything that matters - the feel of the dough, the seasoning done by eye, the story behind the dish - lives only in her memory. Here's how to capture it before it's gone.

• How to Get Reluctant Parents to Open Up: A Practical Guide for Families Who've Tried and Been Shut Down

  Your parents say they don't have interesting stories. They change the subject or give one-sentence answers. Here's how to actually get them talking - and why the usual approaches make it worse.

• Your Parents Crossed Oceans to Give You a Better Life. Have You Recorded Their Story?

  More than 40 million first-generation immigrants live in the United States. Their children and grandchildren are sitting on one of the most extraordinary archives of human experience — and most of it is going unrecorded.