Families urged to record their histories during Thankgiving

Are there experiences your parents or grandparents have shared, you want you kids to know about? Ancestry.com says If you don’t somehow record those, those valuable stories will be lost over time.

Local family history enthusiasts say it’s easy now to simply record those memories on cell phones.

Deann Hall enjoys researching her family history.

“So at the dinner table, when you’re cooking with your mom or your other grandparents, that would be the time to start asking a few questions,” Hall said.

Hall doesn’t want those stories to be lost.

“There are great things I know about them my children may not know, so if I don’t put the effort into saving the pictures and telling the stories and recording them, I feel like they’ll be lost.”

There’s a safe cloud-based place you can store those audio recordings, pictures, and written stories. You can get a free account on familysearch.org.

And if you’re wondering what questions to ask older relatives to preserve their history, Ancestry.com has some suggestions at http://bit.ly/2fSRSRz