ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I examine how a researcher, psychologist and psychotherapist might develop online genealogy and archival information for themselves or for a patient/client to highlight ways in which pain and trauma from past generations could be recognized. Methods such as well-conducted oral history interviews, family myths, socio-historical data, photographs, documents such as letters, wills, death certificates, online, telephone and face-to-face discussion with others searching the same or other family histories and the outcome of DNA matching are all conducive to bringing the past alive.
