Family Traditions
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What traditions did his/her family have? Select this Topic to preserve his/her family memories. Biography Assistant offers special questions at different points in his/her life to highlight how his/her family traditions changed over time.
- What traditions did he/she and his/her family have? Did they eat special foods on special days? Did they make a point of spending time together on certain days?
- Were there family customs that he/she disliked? If yes, what were they and did he/she have to go along with them anyway?
- Was there a special holiday on which he/she and his/her family carried out family traditions? Religious or state holidays, for example? What did he/she do on these days?
- How were birthdays or anniversaries special in his/her family? What did they do differently from what other families do? Did he/she organize parties for his/her family's anniversaries or birthdays?
Did his/her family carry out traditions during his/her childhood and teenage years?
- As a child, was there a special holiday on which he/she and his/her family carried out family traditions? Religious or state holidays, for example? What did he/she do on these days?
- How were birthdays or anniversaries special in his/her family? What did they do differently from what other families do?
Did he/she and his/her family carry out traditions during his/her young adult years?
- Was he/she raising his/her own family? If so, had he/she started his/her own family traditions? Did he/she return to his/her family's home to carry out certain traditions?
- As he/she grew older, were there family customs that he/she found he/she disliked? If yes, what were they and did he/she go along with them anyway? Did he/she find that he/she was drifting away from his/her family and striking out on his/her own?
- As an adult, had he/she moved away from his/her family? If yes, did he/she miss the everyday family routines from the past, such as eating together or playing games in the evenings? Did these later become customs in his/her own family?
- Did he/she and his/her family get together regularly to take family portraits? Did he/she like to do this or did he/she dread it?
- Did he/she have family reunions when he/she was an adult? How often? How had these changed from when he/she was younger? Whom did he/she look forward to seeing?
- Of the customs that he/she shared with his/her family while growing up, which ones did he/she introduce to his/her own family?
Did his/her family carry out traditions during his/her senior years?
- As he/she grew older, what family tradition from this time was most memorable to him and why? Did it bring back memories of loved ones or the way life was in "yesteryear"?