[nopardons]

Either get a tape recorder (are they still made? ) or write all of this down! Don't let this info die out. You never know, someone, of a different generation, might not only find it interesting ( how could they not? ) and/or be a good writer, who could use these stories as a jumping off point!

Those gene companies, in teensy letters, tell you that YOU don't own the info...that THEY do and they sell your info!

Also, I'm not all THAT sure as to the accuracy of the most well known ones.

Because I know my maternal side, for many generations back, I'm satisfied with that knowledge and personally, I won't do one of those tests, knowing what I know about them.

[MD Expat in PA]

Either get a tape recorder (are they still made? ) or write all of this down! Don't let this info die out. You never know, someone, of a different generation, might not only find it interesting ( how could they not? ) and/or be a good writer, who could use these stories as a jumping off point!

I’ve been wanting to do just that. My brother isn’t getting any younger and sadly in recent years hasn’t been in the best of health. I had wanted to have my dad talk about our family history and his experiences in WWII and record his memories on tape, but sadly never got to do it before he died.

I want to get my brother and me and his children and their children all together to go through the big box of family photos including the “brownie” photos my father took while in the Philippines during WWII and our remembrances and for me and my brother to either and or record or write down what we know about the pictures so perhaps my great nieces and nephews may not one day see them as junk or photos of unknown people who don’t mean anything to them.

FWIW my dad took a lot of home movies on 8 reel from the early to mid 60’s and some years ago, and after my father died, I sent them off to be put on a DVD. Unfortunately, some of the reels were not salvageable but many of them were and they did a very good job of what they could.

I had several copies made and gave them to my brother and to my niece and nephew and kept a copy for myself.

A few years ago when some of my little nieces were staying with me for a sleep over I showed it to them. But at the time they were perhaps a bit too young to understand that the little kids in the home movies were actually me and their grandpa when we were kids.

Now that they are a bit older, perhaps I can show it to them again.