“How to tell your family story” sounds simple enough.
But when you start to think about it, the project feels overwhelming.
You know there’s a pile of unsorted old photos in a box somewhere. (Where IS that box?) Or slides, which you can’t even view properly:
This kind of slides
You sign up on a website for genealogists, start to build a family tree, and find you have amassed a lot of dusty facts that don’t interest even you – and would certainly never interest anybody else.
Depressing, isn’t it. Enough to make you want to give up. But you don’t want to give up, because time is short. Your family is not getting any younger.
Children are growing up, and older people, who know all the best stories, won’t be here forever.
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From John-Paul Flintoff and Harriet Green, authors of The Family Project, published by The Guardian with Faber & Faber