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The Not Old - Better Show

#136 Backstory: Family Is Everything

The Not Old - Better Show

Paul Vogelzang

History, Fitness, Film, Health, Aging, Employment, Fashion, Career, Technology, Seniors, Society & Culture, Music, Health & Fitness

51.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2017

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

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The Not Old Better Show: Backstory

Spending time with my family during memorial services made me think about stories of my dad, as well as stories of his dad, who’d passed away many years ago. Ever frighten yourself when you couldn’t recall a family story or experiences you know had to have been recounted to you many times by your grandparents? Ever wonder why you know very little about the personal lives of your grandparents or great-grandparents?

Aaron Holt of the National Archives and Records Administration, Ft Worth, TX, says that “it only takes three generations to lose a piece of oral family history.” If you want to avoid losing those precious family stories passed down through the generations, Holt continued, the story “must be purposely and accurately repeated over and over again through the generations to be preserved.”

The notion that my family’s narratives could be lost in three generations gave him the resolve to ensure that didn’t happen on his watch.

For the sake of my posterity, as well as yours, I’ve begun a new Not Old Better Show, with a focus on genealogy, titled “Backstory: Family is Everything.”

Genealogy is the second most popular hobby in the country, with more than 113 million participants and researchers.

Most people want to know more about their roots, origins, home life, work life, social status, relationships, migrations, marriages, health, attitudes, customs, folklore, clothing, foods, environment, and the social issues in the news during the time in which their ancestors lived.

And, that’s what we’ll talk about, and I think you’ll learn a lot, enjoy the journey together and find out something interesting about your roots.

Today’s show is a great one and we’ll hear an author story from an anthology of articles in the McClatchy Newspaper in California. The first story, by author VJ Vogelzang, in her book, Beautiful Days. Yes, VJ Vogelzang is my mom, and I thought, given my father’s passing, I’d start with some of my mom’s writing for purposes of our first oral family history.

Enjoy.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the not old Better Show. I'm your host Paul Vogel-Seng. I want to thank you

0:09.6

all for your warm wishes and thoughts after my father passed away two weeks ago. So many literally

0:16.2

hundreds of you reached out sent your thoughts, prayers, and love I was blown

0:21.1

away. Thank you.

0:24.2

Spending time with my family during memorial services made me think about stories of my dad,

0:28.8

as well as stories of his dad who'd passed away many years ago. You ever frighten yourself when you couldn't

0:34.5

recall a family story or experiences you know you had to have been recounted to you many

0:41.3

times by your grandparents? You ever wonder why you know very little about the personal lives of your

0:47.8

grandparents or even great-grandparents? Well, Aaron Holt of the National Archives and Records Administration in Fort Worth, Texas says that

0:57.0

it only takes three generations to lose a piece of oral family history. If you want to avoid losing those precious

1:05.4

family stories passed down through the generations, Holt says, the story must be

1:10.7

purposely and accurately repeated over and over again

1:15.1

through the generations to be preserved.

1:17.8

The notion that my family's narratives could be lost in three generations, gave me the resolve to ensure

1:24.7

that that didn't happen on my watch. Having a podcast allows me to do some of that and for the

1:30.4

sake of my posterity as well as yours.

1:33.0

I've begun a new, not old better show with a focus on genealogy titled Backstory, Family is Everything.

1:41.0

Genealogy is the second most popular hobby in the country with more than 113 million

1:47.3

participants and researchers. Staggering. Most people want to know more about their roots, origins, home life, work life,

1:55.0

social status, relationships, migrations, marriages, health, attitudes,

2:00.0

customs, folklore, clothing, foods, environment, and the social issues in the news during the time

2:06.2

in which their ancestors lived.

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