Good Speech “Is Knowledge of family history needed?”

Many people think that one should be aware of his family history even if it demands tracking it out, while others think it is no use knowing family’s past. What is your opinion on tracking family history?

Our birth in a particular family is our destiny, it is not in our hands. People of explorative nature would love to track their family history, and there are also people who believe “history is to forget” and would not bother at all to collect any information about their past generations.

Many people with great forefathers are brought up listening to their stories and are always inspired by them. However, some accidently find out a royal lineage when they dig out their family origin and enjoy flaunting it. This is how a genealogical research can help us, but tracking family history is more than that. Tracking just the names is useless, what is important is their work, values and achievements so that one knows where he stands. Even the intensity and frequency of genetic or hereditary diseases come to knowledge of people and they can start taking precautionary measures to fight them. Let us take this example of one Mr. X who knows that he stands a chance to have coronary artery disease through his family history. He can cautiously change his lifestyle with the increasing age to prevent the disease come as a shock to him and his family.

However, overindulgence in such a tracking out of curiosity makes one spend excessive time behind it. Sometimes nothing significant comes out of it as not everyone is bestowed with a rich family history. It remains mere a collection of names and professions of a few past generations. Often knowledge of family history is disastrous leading people to keep old enmities alive. It may also reveal unpleasant facts that one would regret knowing.

Tracking family history is good if it is done with the aim of getting useful knowledge or for future development. In fact, it is worth giving as an assignment in school. However, one should not forget that it is their present that influences their future more, not their past.