In this chapter I explore the influence of family history on how settlers do and do not listen to truth-telling. The family can be a key site where we learn about history, and where we might connect emotionally with stories and myths about ancestors. In my research I look at how the histories that we learn at home can embed wider national mythologies into biographies and reproduce these across generations. Family tales about settler ancestors are sometimes also positioned as the source of traits that form the character and ethos of a family, making them difficult to unravel. To explore these issues, I will draw on a biographical case study from my qualitative sociology project, Family Secrets, National Silences, where I interviewed settler descendants about finding secrets, silences, and myths about colonial history in their family histories. Here I found that investment in family stories can sometimes be a barrier to people hearing truth-telling about colonial injustice, but crucially, also a path into listening and learning from First Nations’ perspectives, and toward challenging myths about settler histories within the family.