[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.

[nopardons]

Trust me, kids are NEVER really "too young"!

My family has always had a thing for "family stories" and many of them serve/d as parables, so that all you have to do is say the tag line and the kid gets it, when you need to make a point! And yes, this is STILL going on/being used today, on the current generation of kiddos.

My grandmother was the "family historian" and began training me, to take over, from the time I was very little.

Throw in the stories that my parents added to the mix and what I and my immediate family have tacked on, and it has gotten to the point where I have to write everything down, to hand down, by now, because it's too much to do by memory for later generations.

JUST DO EVERYTHING YOU POSTED AND DO IT ASAP!