Most of us will never know our great-grandparents except through glimpses of fading bits of paper: sepia photographs, recipe cards, letters in handwriting traced by a fountain pen dispensing cocoa-colored ink.
What does it take to tell a story from such tantalizing fragments of lives? Here's some tips to think like a historian and make your own "investigative memoir" (from the great-granddaughter of this bride):
https://theconversation.com/filling-the-silences-in-family-stories-how-to-think-like-a-historian-to-uncover-your-familys-narrative-234341
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Filling the silences in family stories − how to think like a historian to uncover your family’s narrative
You can uncover the depths and hidden details of your own family’s unspoken narratives by thinking like an archival researcher writing an ‘investigative memoir.’The Conversation
