[MayflowerMadam]

“I’n very lucky that my family had a “family historian” for man y generations; I’m it, until I teach the next one.”

Same here. An aunt did it first. When she died, it fell to me. I’m trying to pass the torch to someone else. Nobody wants to do it. I guess “ya gotta wanna” — and they don’t wanna.

[nopardons]

My grandmother started training me when I was a tiny child.

I'm writing EVERYTHING down ( except I can't do the stuff in Hungarian, German, and Czech...which I'll have to teach my grandson verbally ) for the next generations.

But some of my distant cousins know the early stories and their own, however I'm the one who knows it all. :-)