Celebrations

Family and community celebrations are an excellent time to ask questions about family and family history!!!! Whether it be Cinco de Mayo, May Day, St. Patrick's Day or the Fourth of July, we have an oral history interview opportunity at these events annually. A friend of mine was able to accumulate a narrative history of his father's life through asking a personal history question in each letter to his father over a period of more than two decades. After his father died, he was able to compile all of the information into a personal history that he organized, typed and self-published for his own children. What a great idea!

Take those few moments that we have and ask a pertinent question and then record the answers! Use photos to jog memories or ask for clarification and you have a great opener for "the rest of the story", as Paul Harvey would say.