Breif History

Why you should know family history?

Old generations take pride in telling the society to which family (Gharane in Marathi). The new generations due to globalisation and may be because of the nuclear family syndrome are not having desired interest in knowing family history.

In advance western societies many a times efforts are made to research, document and preserve the history of the family. In fact such efforts help us with answer to the historical question “Who am I?”  or Ko Ahm?

Ranganath Keshav Panse, the first historian of the Panse family, during his government job, collected scattered information about the Panse family and edited it, and after his retirement, published the history of the Panse family in the year 1928 with the help of philanthropists from the Panse family. The importance of their efforts is unique.

Please do visit following web sites, and you may get to know how people in the advance societies think about family history:

1. 20 Reasons Why You Should Write Your Family History

By Carmen Nigro, Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, February 9, 2015 (New York Public Library) https://www.nypl.org/blog/2015/02/09/reasons-to-write-your-family-history

2. Why We Need Family History Now More Than Ever, By Guest Blogger, September 26, 2017, FamilySearch Blog, https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/why-we-need-family-history-now-more-than-ever

A person interested in knowing further can search Google for this topic.

If you have done any family history research, such as looking for records on Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org or conducting interviews with older family members, you may have pondered writing about your genealogy research. Here are 20 reasons why you should cease pondering and start writing:

1. You’ll feel wiser.

2. First person narratives and family histories are important historical documents.

3. You are an important person. You have things to pass on, to your children, to your local history society, to unknown future generations.

4. You and your family are important to somebody, probably many somebodies.

5. Family trees are abstract. Stories add depth.

6. Memories over time become fragmented and distorted. People may not remember the things you told them but did not write down.

7. Writing your family history gives you the chance to depict your ancestors how you see fit.