{"id":13784,"date":"2026-01-06T14:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/?p=13784"},"modified":"2026-08-15T20:23:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T18:23:39","slug":"ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/ii\/","title":{"rendered":"method – 15 – Casual togetherness"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re just hanging out together. Stories often come out spontaneously, like a flash of inspiration or a rush of emotion. You always have to have a pen and a notepad ready to jot down those snippets of sentences. But it can also be the other way around. Nothing comes at all. You have to develop a method that gives people space to tell their stories. You live with the people, work with them in the kitchen or in the garden.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes I would just sit in the kitchen. I\u2019d then casually ask a question. While standing or walking by, people would offer half-sentences and snippets, which I\u2019d jot down exactly as they were, and at some point I\u2019d pick up on those snippets again. That\u2019s how a conversation would develop, along with a sense of calm in our exchange about a difficult matter\u2014as it turned out later. It was never clear who had done what. Everyone in the family had a different memory.<\/p>\n

Foto on the right: a destroyed bridge in the city Rombas\/East France<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re just hanging out together. Stories often come out spontaneously, like a flash of inspiration or a rush of emotion. You always have to have a pen and a notepad ready to jot down those snippets of sentences. But it can also be the other way around. Nothing comes at all. You have to develop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-method"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13784"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17831,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784\/revisions\/17831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}