Online Training for Oral History Interviews

1) How to Record an Oral History Interview  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTCzxWt1RQk

2) Interviewing Family: Tips and Techniques by Maureen Taylor on 16 December 2010 http://www.ancestry.com/cs/us/videos

3) Baylor Institute for Oral History has a couple great manuals online for free: Introduction to Oral History and The Heart of Oral History: How to Interview  http://www.baylor.edu/oralhistory/index.php?id=931751 (free)

4) Brigham Young University Independent Study English 220: Composing Personal History http://is.byu.edu/site/courses/description.cfm?title=ENGL-220-200 

5) Create Family History Pages course offered at http://www.jewishgen.org/Education/

6) Legacy Family Tree Webinar   Captured for All Time: Recording Family Voices to Preserve and Pass Down by Marian Pierre-Louis

7) FamilySearch

·         Learning Center https://familysearch.org/learningcenter/home.html

Gather Family Stories, I Want To Interview a Relative, Leave a Legacy, Two Sides of Interviewing, Writing Family History

·         RootsTech Videos 2012 & 2013  https://rootstech.org/videos/

8) National Institute for Genealogical Studies at http://www.genealogicalstudies.com/

offers courses on all sorts of genealogical records as well as

·         Producing Your Family Video

·         Writing Your Family History Book

·         Connecting Family: Online and Virtually

·         Personal Historian: Telling the Stories (New)

9) Utah Genealogical Association member webinar archive “Finding Your Family Stories” by Valerie Elkins

10) Writer’s Digest University  http://www.writersonlineworkshops.com/?s=the+art+of+storytelling&submit=

·         They have an incredible amount of workshops on writing in multiple genres. Well worth it.

11) YouTube (Try typing in keywords like: Oral History, How to Interview, etc.)