{"id":107,"date":"2017-09-12T21:33:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T21:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2019-01-16T17:00:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T17:00:57","slug":"interviewing-and-recording-family-history-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/interviewing-and-recording-family-history-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Recording Family History Stories – tips from The Family History Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Family History Guide’s\u00a0Family Section<\/a>\u00a0is 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\u00a0assured that your video recording will be of high quality and that assistants will be there to help. The\u00a0Riverton Family History Center <\/a>is near to our home so we use that location. Find a list of other locations\u00a0here<\/a>. \"\"Our family had a beautiful experience using the questions in the\u00a052 Stories from Family Search\u00a0<\/a>to interview my parents. Their grandchildren and great-grandchildren took turns asking questions that they had decided upon ahead of time and written down. (The library also has a great list of questions to use.) Thinking about what\u00a0<\/span>to ask ahead of time avoided overlap and helped us learn about varied aspects\u00a0of the lives of my parents and their family – our family! We now have this priceless interview recorded on a thumb drive (purchase these at the library before the recording session) which we will share with\u00a0their posterity on The FamilySearch memories app using the audio tool. (see\u00a0\u00a0Project “Memories” Goal 3)<\/a>\u00a0in \u00a0The Family History Guide).<\/span><\/a>\u00a0See this informative blog post for additional help:\u00a0Using FamilySearch Apps to Record Oral Histories<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“That which I do not in some way record will be lost at my death, and that which I do not pass on to my posterity, they will never have. The work of gathering and sharing eternal family keepsakes\u00a0is a personal responsibility. It cannot be passed off or given to another. A life that is not documented is a life that within a generation or two will largely be lost to memory. What a tragedy this can be in the history of a family. Knowledge of our ancestors shapes us and instills within us values that give direction and meaning to our lives.”<\/p>\n

Elder Dennis B. Neuenschwander\u00a0Bridges and Eternal Keepsakes<\/a><\/p>\n

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