What will future generations wish they knew about you?

As genealogists, we spend so much of our time looking backward—searching for ancestors, piecing together their lives, studying old photographs, analyzing DNA, and trying to understand the stories that were never written down. But eventually, there is another question we need to ask:

What are we leaving behind for the people who will someday be searching for us?

In this Season 2 finale of the TIME Capsule Podcast, Barbara Beauregard explores what it means to become a future ancestor and why family history is about more than collecting names, dates, and records.

The episode looks at the kinds of information that often disappear between generations: the stories behind photographs, the reasoning behind research conclusions, the memories th ...