Honoring Our Ancestors: Keeping Memories Alive
Social Science/History | Available (Membership Required)
We are alive because of our ancestors. We can return the favor by keeping memories of them alive. Of course, there are
many ways to do that. For parents and grandparents, we can share stories about our experiences with them. And we can ask parents, uncles and aunts, and grandparents to share stories about their experiences with their parents and grandparents. And we can also be good ancestors, ourselves, by sharing stories about our lives. In this workshop, we will discuss some of the memories that we have of them and how we connect with them.
This is a Virtual session.
Duane Roen
Roen, Duane - has been tracing his roots since his teenage years, building a database with more than 32,000 ancestors. He and his wife, Maureen Roen, have also been recording their family history since 1978 by writing more than 19,000 daily journal entries on their children and other family members. Combining his professional and personal interests, Duane worked with colleagues to establish courses on writing and recording family history at Arizona State University. He also is founding coordinator of the Project for Writing and Recording Family History in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at ASU.