ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 summarizes the work of researchers who study family businesses and then introduces segments from three multigenerational family histories that exemplify some of the researcher's findings 1) A Canadian family and its Swiss Bakery, written by a family member who explains combining talking with family, searching archival records, and accessing many photos, 2) A Southwestern desert family whose history is based on many interviews with other sources exemplifying the linked lives concept in 24-7 business families over generations, 3) Australian market gardeners as part of a 500-page family history started when the author interviewed grandparents for a high school assignment, finishing the book 45 years later. The section on career families includes 1) multiple generations in a US National Park family, 2) scientist musicians interspersed with information about the links between science and music, and 3) one family of miners told emotionally by a family matriarch who recorded 44 sessions of family discussions with a cassette recorder on a kitchen table.
