Drawing on survey data and oral history interviews undertaken with family historians in Australia,England, and Canada this article will explore how family historians construct memories using diverse sources in their research. It will show how they utilize oral history, archival documents, material culture, and explorations of space to construct and reconstruct family stories and to make meaning of the past, inserting their familial microhistories into global macrohistories. It will ask whether they undertake critical readings of these sources when piecing together their families’ stories and reveal the impact of that work on individual subjectivities, the construction of historical consciousness, and the broader social value of family history scholarship. How might family historians join with social historians of the family to reshape our scholarly and “everyday” knowledge of the history of the family in the twenty-first century?

本文将利用与澳大利亚，英国和加拿大的家庭历史学家进行的调查数据和口述历史访谈，来探讨家庭历史学家如何利用研究中的各种资源来构建记忆。它将展示他们如何利用口述历史，档案文献，物质文化以及对空间的探索来构建和重建家庭故事并诠释过去，并将他们的家族微观历史插入全球宏观历史。它将询问他们在拼凑家庭故事时是否对这些资源进行批判性阅读，并揭示该工作对个人主观性，历史意识的建构以及家族史奖学金的更广泛社会价值的影响。