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Preserving stories, photos, and heritage
Everyone agrees the elders' stories should be recorded. Few families actually do it. Here is a practical setup for recording at the reunion and keeping the recordings safe afterward.
Most reunion slideshows lose the room after five minutes. Here is how to make one people actually watch, by collecting the right photos, building a narrative, and keeping it under twenty minutes.
Reunions put everyone in the same room. That makes them the perfect time to build or fill in your family tree, if you do it right and keep it from feeling like homework.
The generic questions get generic answers. Here are the specific, vivid questions that get your elders talking about things they have never told anyone.