How to Deal with the Challenge of Multiple Languages in your Family History Stories

My grandmother left fourteen pages of these handwritten memoirs. For us grandkids they are a real treasure but thankfully we can all read German.

Welcome to another installment of my advice column where I answer readers’ questions about writing compelling stories from family history:

Doremi asks: My mother tongue is Hungarian, but English is my second mother tongue, and my kids are more at home in the latter. In our family we use both languages equally. I feel mixed up sometimes: Some stories,...