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.)

9 Blogs to Help Prompt Interview Questions

Project: Oral History lists these blogs because they have posts about great interview or memoir questions.

1. http://www.thearmchairgenealogist.com/
2. http://historyfromtheheart.com.au/heart2heart/
3. http://geneabloggers.com/
4. http://www.anglersrest.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/the-book-of-me-written-by-you-prompt-1.html
5. http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/
6. http://teresaclark.blogspot.com/
7. http://thememoirnetwork.com/memoir-blog/
8. http://www.geneamusings.com/
9. http://blog.progenealogists.com/

Have you found a blog that deals with interviews or questions? Please make a comment with a link.

10 Sites or Software to Help Create Great Interview Questions

Project: Oral History states that preparation is the key to success in any oral history interview. The following 10 sites or software help to create great interview questions. Legacy Family Tree Software, for instance, has a master list of 1200 questions in 13 different categories. Some of the sites help to capture the audio recordings.

1. FamilySearch.org has the capacity for adding online photos and stories to their FamilyTree. Have some been added for the person you are researching? 
2.  familystorytelling.com 
3.  Legacy Family Tree Software 7.5 version has 1200 questions in 13 different categories. Just click reports, then go to books/other tab, and it is listed under interview questions. Many great ideas. 
4.  legacystories.org (allows one to put voice to stories and photos and put on FamilySearch) 
5.  Memory Grabber software @ http://www.davidrm.com/thejournal/tjfeatures-memoryg.php 
6.  Personal Historian 2 has a master story list. Compatible with RootsMagic, Family Tree Maker (version 16 and earlier), PAF (version 5), Legacy (versions 3 and later). 
7. reelgenie.com 
8. savingmemoriesforever.com 
9. treelines.com 
10. voicequilt.com

Is there a site or software that has helped you to capture the interview? 

Please comment and let everyone know.

14 Articles Online to Help Create Interview Questions

The first step to a great interview is to prepare. Listed are 14 articles online that could help anyone create interview questions. The Project: Oral History Guide has many ideas on interview preparation. Click here for Project: Oral History.

1. Clark, Carol. ""One of the Most Important Days of My Life" : An Introduction to Oral History." lds.org. November 1973. URL: https://www.lds.org/new-era/1973/11/one-of-the-most-important-days-of-my-life-an-introduction-to-oral-history?lang=eng.

2. "Creating Oral Histories." FamilySearch. URL:  https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Creating_Oral_Histories  

3. FamilySearch: Appendix A - Questions to Prompt Personal Recollections. URL: https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Write_a_Personal_History#Appendix_A.E2.80.94Questions_to_Prompt_Personal_Recollections 

4. FamilySearch: Personal History Questions for Latter-day Saints. URL: https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Personal_History_Questions_for_Latter-day_Saints 

5. Get To Know U. Writing a Personal History or Family History. URL: http://www.gettoknowu.com/Family_History/personal_history_family_history_growing_up_01.php 

6. Gramma Lowe. Personal History Questions URL: http://pie.midco.net/grammalowe2/pstory.html 

7. Hartley, William G. "Suggested Family Oral History Topics." November 1973. URL: https://www.lds.org/new-era/1973/11/suggested-family-oral-history-topics?lang=eng

8. "Writing Your History: Some Helpful Ideas." lds.org. Jan 1977. URL: https://www.lds.org/ensign/1977/01/writing-your-history-some-helpful-ideas?lang=eng 

9. —. "The Beginner's Guide: Tape-recording Memories." lds.org. January 1977. URL: https://www.lds.org/ensign/1977/01/the-beginners-guide-tape-recording-memories?lang=eng

10. Moonbridge Publications. Sample Lifewriting Questions for Military Veterans. URL: http://moonbridgebooks.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/lifewriting-questions-for-veterans2.pdf 

11. Patterson, L. Dale. "Archival Leaflet Series." General Commission on Archives & History URL: http://www.gcah.org/site/pp.aspx?c=ghKJI0PHIoE&b=3612121 

12. Great Questions List. URL:  http://storycorps.org/record-your-story/great-questions/list/ 

13. This Is Me Challenge LDS Version. Personal History in Depth. URL:  http://ldsthisismechallenge.blogspot.com/p/personal-history-in-depth.html  

14. Wilson, Geneal. Journal Jars Personal History Questions. 2013. URL: http://kigatsuku.me/2013/01/journal-jars-personal-history-questions/

Are there articles you have come across online that have helped you make great interview questions?

Please leave a comment with a link.

Cascade Springs Camp

Corner close-up

Daughters of Utah Pioneers Utah North Company currently has 9 camps. There are 5 camps in Alpine and 4 camps in Highland. Cascade Springs is named for the beautiful water fall located in the Uintah National Forest nearby and located close to Sundance Resort. This camp is only three years old and is probably one of the fastest growing camps by adding new members regularly.

This amazing group of ladies hold fundraisers each year to help fund The Highland Cabin. They pieced together this beautiful quilt then had it machine quilted afterwards selling it at a booth during the Highland City celebration days called The Highland Fling.

Square close-up

This camp also likes to tour the International Daughters of Utah Pioneer Museum each year and enjoy their monthly socials.