Before you formed your own understanding of the world, certain stories were already attached to you. Some were inherited through family and culture. Others were projected onto you by institutions and other people.
You are not being asked to defend yourself.
You are being asked to assemble a record — of names, places, languages, stories, silences, and marks.
Partial knowledge is a legitimate entry. "I don't know" is a legitimate entry. Incomplete archives are real archives.
At the end, the archive will be read.