Research On Memory Construction Of Family Archives

Archives are important carriers of social memory, bearing the responsibility asan important social memory builder. At present, the archives mainly preserve officialarchives. Therefore, the social memory which is kept and inherited is also official.This situation must be controlled and improved. On the contrary, family archivescome from tens of thousands of ordinary families and contain the social memory ofthe broad masses of the people. So it’s a must to build and make up for social memoryin the form of family archives. The constructing subjects of family archives memoryinclude family and its members as main participants, the nation and archivaldepartments as promoter and guide and middle organizations as service provider.Besides the subject factor, the constructing of family archives memory is affected byfamily archive resources, objective conditions and situation factor. The constructingprocedure of family archive memory is based on specific collecting, identifying,utilizing, and showing off steps. But the procedure won’t be limited by the steps. Onperspective of social memory, the works of family archives memory constructing willbe carried out through four aspects that include constructing, inheriting, controllingand showing off. And this project needs efforts from all subjects on all sides. Only inthis way may this project be done well.