- Pictures of my family like husband, children, mother/father, aunties/uncles, grandmother/grandfathers etc.
- Important documents like birth certificate, social security card, i.d.these items I chose because it will prove my birth, nationality and citizenship as U.S. American.
- Medical records/prescription also because my history if I was in need of medication, show my blood type, shots that I have had, and also may be able to trace my blood line to find my family.
Doing this assignment really made me start to think how important family, family life, and family culture is so important to reserve the memories and life history to pass down from generation to generation. I hope one day to sit down with my children and just remember our ancestors by looking at photos, videos, and listening to recordings of our family to remember not forget.
This is good list, and I like that you said it is important to remember one's family culture and history. Sometimes we all get caught in the day to day that we forget where we come from or we forget the reason behind why we behave, good or bad in a certain way. Perhaps this type of picture sharing can occur in the classroom with children, giving them an opportunity to share and remember who they are.
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ReplyDeleteOral history is so important when passing down information. My husband's father passed away in 1999 at the age of 106. I would sit and listen to him tell about his days as a cowboy in Texas, when he got in the ring with a trained bear for a $5.00 prize and when he had to go to the backdoor to a cafe to buy something to eat because "colored people" couldn't eat inside. I wish I had audio taped those conversations. If I had, my choices of what I would take would have been different.