there are reason on why people try to find out about the historical root of the house or the building they live in. First, a house, unlike others item that people have in their life, always have a personal and familiar meaning, house is a main part of everyone’s life, because it is where people are born, growth up to adulthood. and a house also a place of memories, where sadness and happiness are bind together, Interlink to one another to create a final picture of personal’s life and also a family story, the people who have house, realize the meaning of a house as a place of a story, of how everything begin or start in a specific house, that is why people want to know what was the story with their current house , it is a warm curiosity of human nature.
Second, people want to know what kind of people who lived
In their house before them because they want to appreciate the previous owner, who had maintain the house for so long untill it is in its new owner, people want to know the history of people before them to show them repect and also an a gesture of assuring to let them know that their house right to now is in a good hand, their house will be loved and taken good care of as a main part of the family, there are ways people can do this kind of research, for example, they can visit a local library where they can gather a user a usefull information about the house or building they live in, and also they can try to talk to people, especially, the senior one in their neighbourhood, to have an oral history about the area they currently live, and also people nowadays can rely on Internet especially social media, where they can post a picture of their house or building and just ask a simple question like ” does anyone know the history of this house?” and we can expect ” a pouring answer in no time.