Historians call this "living memory", either direct witness of events up to 105 years ago, or had talked to a direct winess of events, up to 200 years ago. anyt

Historians call this "living memory", either direct witness of events up to 105 years ago, or had talked to a direct winess of events, up to 200 years ago. anything more indirect is oral or recorded history. For example I am old enough to have seen the last living Civil War veterans and slaves talk about their experiences. Ive read we tend tomonly know our ancestors up to the living history limit, an no further, unless s/he was a very notable person. We might have heard our grandparents stories about their grandparents. Republican Rome held a living history party called The Jubilee. A new Jubilee was held when last person who remembered the previous Jubilee died. (It gradually got debased to celebration of a leader who ruled for a long time.) Only two ladies are alive from the 1800s, but dont remember it.