Each family has its own stories, tales and anecdotes that are being carried out from one generation to the other.
Some of them are pure history telling the story of the specific family within the general events. Some are so old that probably over the years facts were lost or changed while others were added.
Other stories have a strong moral and some are just funny.
Families' traditions are made using stories.
Parents have the urge to tell those stories to their children (and sometimes to anyone who is willing to listen).
I love to tell my kids family stories, especially the funny ones. I assume that as they grow older I will tell them the more serious ones as well. I tell them about my grandparents who past away long before they were born, about my memories as a child and about myself growing up in Africa. Sometimes I show them some old pictures.
Using Batalugu, I will start now turning those stories into a book or books. I can upload scanned pictures and add relevant illustrations from Batalugu's rich image bank.
The above photo was taken in the very early 1900's, maybe even before 1910. The woman in it is the grandmother of my grandmother. The only thing that I know about this woman is the fact that she lived in Poland. I don't know her name or when she was born.
My father has the original photo which is very small in dimensions. It is a mystery to me how it was kept all those years. A friend of my father, who is a photographer, managed to restore it in a special lab, so I got a copy of it which I scanned.
This unique piece of history is more likely to be well kept as a part of a book about our family's history.
I hope that this will inspire you to write down your family's stories for the sake of the next generations.
Just before I finish, I must mention Batalugu's Hallo-WIN book writing contest with a chance to win $500.
You can find all the details at:
http://batalugu.com/contests/2010_Halloween/
As always, Tell a Tale (now you can win a prize for it)
Dorit Rosen
Founder
http://batalugu.com
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