Sitting both of your grandparents down together for a family storytelling session can be fun—but it’ll yield the best results if you follow these simple tips.
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Steal these best practices from professional oral historians to make your next family history interview a success, plus how to set the stage for great stories.
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Planning to conduct a personal history interview with a family member? Here are three effective first questions that guarantee their stories will flow freely.
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Use these food-themed family history questions as conversation starters or writing prompts to capture your cherished food memories for the next generation.
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Even as families come together, many are still social distancing from family elders. Connect grandkids & grandparents with these cross-generational questions.
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Don’t wait until it’s too late—have meaningful conversations with your parents about their past with questions designed to spark memories and make story sharing easy.
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Holocaust Remembrance Day prompts compelling first-person accounts; new memoir from Dani Shapiro; and two films that take life story narrative to new levels.
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Family history questions for Christmas: 75 open-ended, specific interview questions to elicit powerful memories & stories from the older generation.
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