Under the slogan "Remembering may change, but never being lost" and the hashtag #weiter(ge)denken, the presentation explains the "BEFEM" project taking place in Germany and is funded by the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate. It researches local and migrant family histories and their relationship to Nazi history. In order to contribute to a personal examination of National Socialism and to promote historical awareness as an active contribution to strengthening democracy, the BEFEM project is designed with the research approach as a citizen science project. The commitment of the citizens of Rhineland-Palatinate, who are involved in the research themselves, is of particular relevance. To answer the question, the project's social-scientific method is divided into project steps that merge into one another and influence each other. In addition to a quantitative survey, qualitative interviews are conducted with families. For the qualitative interviews, 10 families (50% native, 50% migrant families; of which at least 15% are Jewish families) in urban and rural areas are interviewed. In a first step, the interviews are conducted with the individual family members, if possible also with the generation that experienced and survived the Second World War. Concise and possibly contradictory statements are then discussed with the interviewers in the entire family circle. Deeper insights into how family stories and how people deal with them changed in relation to one's own historical experiences and what effects family history has on the lives of different generations today are worked out in this way. With the first results of the project, the presentation shows an alternative to the use of video recordings of interviews in today's oral history projects and explains a possible inclusion of young target groups and the use of new media in research with citizen scientists.