1. Family history: Talk to members of your own family to see how they feel about your family’s history. Find out, for example, how the family history influences the way they think about who they are. Do they wish they knew more about your family? What things has your family continued to do that your forebears probably also did? Do you eat some of the same foods? Practice the same religion?

Celebrate birthdays or weddings in the same way? Often, the continuity between past and present is taken for granted.