Vysyons Journal
Notes on storytelling, heritage, celebration, and the work of preserving what matters.
When the Record Doesn’t Match the Story We Were Told
: Every family historian eventually finds the record that doesn’t quite match the family story. Here is why I don’t treat that story as an error, and the five steps I use to hold both honestly.
The Living Archives
There is a specific feeling that comes with realizing you didn't ask someone something while you still had the chance. Every archive has a closing time, courthouses, libraries, historical societies, and you can come back once they reopen. The archive that lives in an elderly relative's memory doesn't work that way. You can't come back once it closes.