Uncover fresh aspects of family members you’ve known your whole life with this handy handbook that includes room for writing.

Just as the oral histories of people throughout the globe are vanishing amid fast change, there is a danger that your family’s unique tales, too, could be lost forever. In The Essential Questions, the author guides you to unearth the unique memories of your parents and grandparents and to make enduring relationship with them in the process.

As you attempt to understand more about your family history, how can you go beyond familiar tales and avoid the irritation of conflicting generational attitudes? By asking questions that make the familiar unusual. Drawing on her lifetime experience in this sector, The author has prepared a collection of questions that tackle your parents and grandparents difficulties. The Essential Questions encourages you to learn about the history of your elders, to understand the world through their eyes, and to respect the language they use to express their experiences.