This paper offers a sustained critical reading of the multigenerational family saga as a literary form that transforms private inheritance into public cultural history, with particular attention to the intertwined themes of kept secrets, suppressed names, and the possibility of redemption across time. Drawing on narrative theory, trauma studies, and postcolonial kinship theory, the study argues that the family saga's central tension — between the imperative to remember and the compulsion to forget — enacts, in miniature, the broader dynamics of collective cultural memory. The paper traces how names function within the saga as nodes of compressed history: to withhold a name is to suppress a lineage; to recover it is to perform an act of restitution. Through close readings of representative texts spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the paper examines how authors deploy formal strategies — non-linear chronology, multiple first-person narrators, the interrupted letter, the misread document — to render the experience of transgenerational haunting and the slow, costly work of redemption. It concludes that the family saga, at its most ambitious, does not offer reconciliation as comfort but as an ethical demand: the obligation of the living to those whose names were taken from them.