Rebroadcast: How to unlock your family’s history

重播:如何解开家族历史

Apple News In Conversation

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2024-12-27

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This is an episode from our archives. Elizabeth Keating didn’t realize how little she knew about her mother’s life until after she had died. A trained anthropologist, Keating decided to develop a guide for interviewing and recording loved ones’ histories before it’s too late. Her book The Essential Questions: Interview Your Family to Uncover Stories and Bridge Generations offers a blueprint for these conversations along with thought-provoking questions. On Apple News In Conversation, Keating shares what this process can teach us about ourselves and our families with host Shumita Basu.
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  • Hey there, it's Shamitha here.

  • This week we are bringing you an episode from our archives.

  • If you're spending time with family this holiday season,

  • this one might inspire you to strike

  • up some interesting conversations with

  • and about your family members.

  • Enjoy.

  • This is in Conversation from Apple News.

  • I'm Shemitah Basu.

  • Today, the power of recording your family history.

  • When Elizabeth Keating's mother died in 2014,

  • Elizabeth had some regrets.

  • I realized after she died

  • that I didn't know very much about her as a person.

  • There were all of these gaps in what she knew about her mother's life.

  • How she grew up, and what formed her as a person.

  • So many questions she had never asked her.

  • I wish I'd asked my mother about the kind

  • of things that she saw every day when she was walking to school

  • and the sort of fears that she had and what was dating like.