The first social framework of any individual’s memories is constituted by his or her family. Personal (or autobiographical) memory (remembrance of what one has experienced) is not sealed off from other people’s remembrances, from what Halbwachs called social or historical memory. The family too, has a memory: as any other collective group the family has “its memories which it alone commemorates, and its secrets that are revealed only to its members.” Through the family memory the individual is connected with a past he or she has not experienced. This connectivity is the basis for any culture.