If “I love you” are the three best words in the English language the three worst have to be “I should have…” and never more so than when personal historians hear them.  You wouldn’t believe how often people say to me “I wish I’d done something like this with my mum, aunt, grandfather, brother…”.  One of my most heartbreaking moments this year was receiving a phone call from a woman who had (after thinking about it for more than a year) booked me to start recording her father’s story.  Three weeks before we were to start her father passed away unexpectedly leaving her with such regrets.  I usually feel uncomfortable talking about this because you shouldn’t feel pressured to explore a personal history but if you are pretty sure this is something you want to do I can’t urge you strongly enough to start NOW.