The article participates in the
discourse of using already existing materials for some new purpose. The
example is a study focusing on family use of proverbial utterances. As a
narrative source I draw on the material collected with interviews of families
with three generation. The interviews have been conducted during the years 1994
to 1997 in Finland. The collection consists of two parts; the first covering
the years 1994–1995 and the second the years 1996–1997. The focus is in the first
one, 1994–1995. I reflect the findings to the narrative
material used in my previous study about proverbs from childhood. The main
focus is on the source criticism: do we get what we order?