Reflecting

My questions that I have posed for my project is about Christmas within my families.  The first questions that I would like to answer would be what are the differences between the two sets of families (my mother and father)?  Second, how have they changed from generation to generation?  Third, what has spurred the changes?  Fourth, how have I changed the traditions to fit my needs/wants?
I have already conducted interviews and I used my grandmother on my father's side of the family and my grandmother on my mother's side of the family (both grandfathers are unfortunately deceased), as well as my mother and father, and used memories of my last Christmas (the first Christmas I had together with my wife).
I found that I did ask the right questions, the problem that I did run into was I did get the answer "I don't know that is always how we did it" from my grandmothers, but not too many times to be a hindrance.  Other than that I did get the amount of information that is needed to explain quite a bit of traditions that we do.
I am finding that while trying to explain why changes occured, due to regional changes, to look at the region and take the traditions and information and apply it as an explanation for some changes, some do not match though.
My project hasn't changed much at all, I did have to change a little bit, I decided to omit a lot of information pertaining to the Christmas Tree because it was a case of information overload.
Right now I need to write up my rough draft and go back to my family and show it to them to make sure that I have everything right and then write my final draft.  So should be done next week.