How To Document Family Stories

Life Kit

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🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Learning stories about our loved ones helps us understand their lives and make sense of our own story. Here are five tips to guide you as you document your family history.

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0:00.0	This is NPR's Life Kit.
0:02.6	I'm journalist Simran Catee.
0:06.0	Well, hi, Dad.
0:07.6	Well, hi.
0:09.5	How's your day, Ben?
0:11.1	My day's been good.
0:12.6	I have a day off.
0:15.2	Don't you have every day off?
0:16.4	Yeah, well, being retired I do, but I actually took the day off
0:19.6	and didn't do much of anything.
0:22.6	The voices you're hearing are those of Kim Holly and her dad, Jim Sherman.
0:27.1	Kim's the founder of Strength Through Story,
0:29.4	a perinatal support group that uses writing as a form of healing.
0:33.7	But despite encouraging others to get their stories out,
0:36.6	she hadn't done the same excavating within her own family.
0:40.3	What is the day and the life of a retired person like?
0:44.8	Hmm, well, you get up in the morning, make breakfast, make coffee, take your meds.
0:52.6	Sounds exhausting.
0:54.0	It is.
0:54.7	What you're hearing is Kim's first ever interview with her dad.
1:00.6	A conversation that reveals, as writer and activist James Baldwin once wrote,
1:05.2	that history isn't merely something to be read.
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