Archiving Family Histories

Families have reconnected through these exercises, participants have rediscovered their roots or people they admire, friends have comforted in each other and ailing elders have found a purpose... Across the three workshops in Apr-May 2020 during the lockdown, we have discussed and framed archival projects around a range of subjects: family temple's history, narratives around regional architecture of their hometown, festival rituals of a family, post-marriage migration of women in the community, life histories of grandparents and many others. Participants were engaged from across different countries and they further connected with their family or community members in other parts of the world to collect stories, find archival objects and build the project information.