That is great that you have that recording of your Mother and her sisters.
I have some videos of the older generation talking about the past. I have daily journals and such from family members going back over 150 years. The oldest of these is in German. He writes about crossing the Atlantic on a sailing ship in the 1830s. He settled In PA and then later moved to Iowa before the civil war. The journals are in safety deposit boxes.
Heck I even have some 30mm film that one Great Uncle took in the 1950s. It has scenes of them being on the river. I can remember hearing about them going but it is neat to actually watch them there.
One of my Grand Daughters is actually taking historical record keeping at college. She is getting fanatically about recording these family records. She and I have had long discussions about how to store these records. So she is transcribing them to paper documents as well as digitally. My question is: Will any one 100 years form now be able to read/play DVDs and such??? Look at 30mm film and such now. Heck even cassette tapes are not easily played now.
Last winter she recorded over 100 hours of older family members and friends talking about times gone by. She is bugging me to do more of it this winter. I seem to have a knack for remembering the old family tails. I never watched much TV or listened to radio. I enjoyed talking/listening to my elders. So I guess I have heard more of the stories than most of my family members. I am also older than my siblings and cousins. So I talked/visited my Great Grand Parents on both sides. A couple of old Bachelor Great Uncles kind of adopted my wife as their daughter so they where in our house several times each week for supper and then visited afterwards. ( She spoiled them with lots of home cooking. LOL)
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