FARGO — Maybe it happened at your Thanksgiving table. You’re stuffed (but saving room for pie) when an older relative — an aunt, a grandfather, a great-grandmother suddenly launches into a story from long ago.

Perhaps it's about the blizzard of ’66 or the time your uncle climbed his hometown water tower just to prove he could, or how your mom and her sisters told ghost stories on the porch of the old farmhouse — the one with the squeaky door that made every tale a little spookier.

And someone at the table inevitably says it: “We really should write this down.”

Most of us never do.

Valerie Monson is building a business around that moment.

Monson, 52, is the founder of History Catchers, a Fargo business devoted to capturing family histories on video, in audio recordings or in written

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