Tag: Interviews

Interviewing Parents about their Younger Days

Note: This guest article was contributed by family history blogger Rachel Merashi.   Here are some questions to ask your parents about their youth and how it influenced them. We’re all losing out on the chance to speak about the essential things in our lives with our parents as time goes by. They are the only ones who can provide...

Learning about the Fathers in Your Family Tree

Happy Father’s Day to everyone! On Sunday, June 19 we honor fathers everywhere, including of course the ones that are part of your family tree. My dad was a family history enthusiast. He wasn’t a professional or studied researcher, but he collected a wide variety of photos, documents, and stories and passed them on to me and my siblings. These...

10 Questions Everyone Should Ask Their Grandparents

Making good conversation with grandparents can sometimes be difficult, and as the end of the year looms, you may find yourself sharing Christmas with older relatives who you don’t routinely speak to. Home care workers or nursing support can drastically improve a senior’s quality of life, but on the other hand, family members may find themselves missing out on those...

Capturing Memories Before It’s Too Late

This past week our family celebrated the life of my husband’s beloved stepmother at a carefully planned funeral and at several family get-togethers. Although I had helped her gather and preserve documents and photos, and had audio recorded her sharing memories of her life and family history, her sudden illness and death left me wishing I had spent more time...

How Will You Preserve Your Memories?

Gemma Green-Hope captures a scene many of us have faced (or might face in the future) as she describes how after her grandmother’s death in 2010, she had the task of helping her father and uncle sort through some of her grandmother’s possessions. She writes, “I inherited some of her clothes to wear, books to read, a bicycle to ride.”...

Recording Family History Stories – tips from The Family History Guide

The Family History Guide’s Family Section is the place to go to find suggestions for preserving your family history stories. One idea is to interview parents and grandparents (or anyone!) while gathering in a story room at an LDS Family History Center. Be assured that your video recording will be of high quality and that assistants will be there to help. The Riverton Family...