Introduction to the Transaction Edition/PAUL THOMPSON -- List of Contributors -- i. Introduction/DANIEL BERTAUX and PAUL THOMPSON -- 2. Family myth, models, and denials in the shaping of individual life paths/Paul Thompson -- 3. The Pull of family ties: intergenerational relationships and life paths/Isabelle Bertaux-Waime -- 4. Religion, family, and industry in the transmission of values: the case of women textile workers in Antioquia, Colombia/Luz Gabriela Arango -- 5. Social change, family histories, and attitudes to money in a rural community in Epirus/Klimis Navridis -- 6. Attitudes towards marriage and divorce among women in modern China/Weiyan Farmer -- 7. A Hitler youth from a respectable family: the narrative composition and destruction of a life story/Reinhard Sieder -- 8. Transgenerational transmission in the families of Holocaust survivors in England/Natasha Burchardt -- 9. Grandmothers, mothers, and daughters: intergenerational transmission in displaced families in three Jewish communities/Lena Inowlocki -- 10.Memory of slavery in black families of São Paulo, Brazil/Maria de Lourdes Monaco Janotti & Zita de Paula Rosa -- 11. Spoken and unspoken words in the life of a Cypriot woman: a life story by her granddaughter/Elena Georgiou -- 12. Kichuk Paris: a Bulgarian family story/Valentina Stoev.