<p>If it’s any comfort, I have the family histories my great aunt Ruth (a DAR member) prepared for me when I was in high school, when I thought the whole idea was dreadful. I also have family histories from my mother’s side… I have a special shelf for them, and for my great aunt Maude’s book about growing up in Kansas in the 1890s. My kids could not care less–just as I felt at their age.</p>