This article introduces a special issue on “family, memory, and identity.” Beginning with a survey of previous research in this area, especially exploring family as a site for collective memory, and the ways that family memory work shapes national histories, it introduces the contribution made by this special issue to our understanding of how family memory and national memory intertwine in the production of individual identity. Highlighting the key findings of the special issue, it particularly notes how family history research has the potential to challenge and reform national memory, and in doing so allows for rich and complex rethinkings of the past for both historians and members of the public.

本文介绍了一个有关“家庭，记忆和身份”的特刊。从对这一领域先前研究的调查开始，特别是探索将家庭作为集体记忆的场所，以及家庭记忆工作如何影响国家历史的方法，它介绍了本期特刊对我们对家庭记忆和民族观念的理解的贡献。记忆交织在个人身份的产生中。着重强调了这一特殊问题的主要发现，它特别指出了家族史研究如何具有挑战和改革国家记忆的潜力，并在此过程中允许历史学家和公众对过去进行丰富而复杂的反思。