How valuable would it be for you to look up at your family tree and pull from it memoirs about the lives of many of those people? You would be able to know and understand their struggles, what made them happy, and their personality would literally leap off the pages into your current reality. It is so exciting to know that we can actually build that sort of future for the generations that are coming. We may not know or understand those generations but we will never be able to say that we did not do all we could to teach them about their history and their past