I work in an archive and from lots of observation I'd say that people get interested in family history at a time when it is more relevant to them - particularly as the previous generation disappears. I also think that stories hook people in. I know I loved stories from my grandparents, and finding out that there really was a Rhona who died young, or a Billy who played the clarinet in the Marines. Maybe publishing a book - even if a picture book with interesting captions via Jessops - is a good way to introduce another generation to the people in their past? I've been researching since the mid-1950s! My parents lived abroad so I spent holidays with gran who took me to the extended family. No TV so I spent hours looking at the family photo albums my granddad had compiled from early 1900s, postcard albums with postcards pre-1910. Those photos that were unnamed I made a point of naming. Gran's wedding photo was great, I got some tracing paper and lightly drew the heads then I wrote all the names on the tracing paper which I kept. I didn't inherit the photo until gran went into a home in the late 1960s and the aunts were going to burn everything if I didn't want the photos. I am so glad I kept my tracing paper and inherited the photo, now when the cousins or my sister see it they really don't have a clue who is who.