You have decided to dig into your family history. Your notebook contains everything you could recall about your relations. You began by recording your vital statistics and proceeded backwards jotting down all the details you could think of. So where do you go now?
Have you rummaged around your home to locate any documents that can support the information, provide clues to work with or add interest and personality to the history you are compiling? You probably got out a birth or baptism certificate and a few old photos then concluded that is all you have to contribute. You are ready to make a trip to your parent's house or some other relatives to discover what treasures they have. STOP! Go back and look again. This time gather up everything you can lay your hands on that may (even remotely) add some interest or provide clues.
You are not ready to interview family until you have established every thing you know. If you want to produce a family history ... you want to find out more than the vital events. With genealogy you start with yourself and with family history you do too.
Most of us do not truly start our research with ourselves. We know what we do for a living and where we went to school. What about the future generations? A family history is not just for you ... it is for your descendents and other kinfolk who will come after. Do a thorough investigation of your own life first. Not only will you establish a good foundation for your family history, you will learn what to ask others. When it comes time to contact other family members, you will have specific questions in mind. You will also have a background of material to work with that can be helpful in triggering memories.
Hunt through your files, drawers and closets. Locate that box of childhood mementos. Pull out a copy of your resume. Take a close look at your keepsakes or family heirlooms.The items you gather will help to create a comprehensive documentation of your own life. You will find that the list of possible resources is endless - these include more then official certificates and photographs. Look for report cards, school papers, newspaper clippings, postcards, letters, insurance papers, licenses, property or business records, diaries, old passports, calendars, address books, and greeting cards. Even awards and trophies are records of events you should note.
Once you have gathered up all the bits and pieces of your life - study each one. Use them to help recreate your story. Note down the mundane and the exciting. As you do not live in a world by yourself, you will probably be coming up with plenty of stuff on other family members. This is okay. You will find as you get deeper into your family history that while looking into the life of one member of the family you will discover information about not just them, but other kin. Take meticulous notes - of everything that comes to mind.
This may all seem a bit much to you. You might think it does not matter that when you were young you won a bowling trophy in the town league. Whether you studied piano, made model airplanes, are an excellent cook, can rebuild a car motor from the ground up, or collect salt and pepper shakers... it all counts. What you do, have done and enjoy doing, should go into your family history. This information gives insight into you as a person.
You might even want to include some interesting anecdotes. All those documents and other mementos probably have you reminiscing. Write it all down. These memories will bring your family history to life.
Remember start with yourself. Make note of the exciting and the trivial. If you feel funny musing over your life by yourself, get your spouse, sibling or child to sit down with you. Let them take the notes. Just put it down on paper.
You have stories to share that will mean much more to others than the date you were born on. After you have completed this groundwork, scrutinize what you wrote to uncover the questions you will ask others. Make a list of these questions.
Kamis, 30 November 2017
Kamis, 16 November 2017
8 Common Family Tree Research Challenges and Their Solutions
Every amateur genealogist is bound to hit a dead end every once in a while. Don't lose hope. The information you're looking for IS out there...it just might take a little more digging to find it. Here are some common problems - and their solutions -- that trip up many family tree researchers:
1. Sorting out names.
Names can get you into a muddle if several of your ancestors share a name. Names were often passed on from one generation to the next, so you could find that three of your ancestors are all called James Clifton Sterling. Who's who? If you're confused about names, the answer is to talk to the older members of your family, NOW. This is a vital first step. If you don't talk to them first, you'll have to do it later. Ask for full names and nicknames, plus dates of birth, marriages, and dates of death of your ancestors. Ask whether anyone in the family has an old family Bible. You may even find that someone in the family has already traced his or her family tree, which will give a boost to your own searches.
2. Where do I start? Which line should I trace?
This is up to you. If you try to trace all your ancestors, it will likely take years because of the huge number of people involved. Start with your own surname; the surname you were born with. If you're a married woman, this means your maiden name. If you know your four grandparents, start with the family that used to live, or still lives, close to where you live now, because you can use the public library and the record's office in your area. If you don't want to follow that line, then choose the rarest of the four surnames, because, ironically, a rare surname is often easier to trace than a common one.
3. I can't find my great-grandfather!
Whenever you come to a complete dead-end, your first step is always to send for the birth certificate of the ancestor that you do know. Yes, it's frustrating to wait, but when you receive the document, you'll probably see why you were stumped. Let's say you're looking for your great-grandfather, Edward Thomas Carmichael, and he doesn't seem to exist. By sending away for your grandfather's birth certificate, you may find that his father was David Thomas Carmichael. In other words, someone's memory has failed them, and they gave you an incorrect name. This is very common; don't simply believe what your relatives tell you - people often confuse names and places and one branch of the family with another.
4. Why is it so hard to find information on European ancestors?
Everyone who was born in England or Wales since 1837 should have had his or her birth registered by the state. However, it's estimated that in some parts of the country, as many as 15% of all births were not registered in the decades after 1837, because there was no penalty on parents for failing to register until 1875. Also, some parents believed that it wasn't necessary to register the birth if the child was baptized. Therefore, if you're looking for your English ancestors.
1. Sorting out names.
Names can get you into a muddle if several of your ancestors share a name. Names were often passed on from one generation to the next, so you could find that three of your ancestors are all called James Clifton Sterling. Who's who? If you're confused about names, the answer is to talk to the older members of your family, NOW. This is a vital first step. If you don't talk to them first, you'll have to do it later. Ask for full names and nicknames, plus dates of birth, marriages, and dates of death of your ancestors. Ask whether anyone in the family has an old family Bible. You may even find that someone in the family has already traced his or her family tree, which will give a boost to your own searches.
2. Where do I start? Which line should I trace?
This is up to you. If you try to trace all your ancestors, it will likely take years because of the huge number of people involved. Start with your own surname; the surname you were born with. If you're a married woman, this means your maiden name. If you know your four grandparents, start with the family that used to live, or still lives, close to where you live now, because you can use the public library and the record's office in your area. If you don't want to follow that line, then choose the rarest of the four surnames, because, ironically, a rare surname is often easier to trace than a common one.
3. I can't find my great-grandfather!
Whenever you come to a complete dead-end, your first step is always to send for the birth certificate of the ancestor that you do know. Yes, it's frustrating to wait, but when you receive the document, you'll probably see why you were stumped. Let's say you're looking for your great-grandfather, Edward Thomas Carmichael, and he doesn't seem to exist. By sending away for your grandfather's birth certificate, you may find that his father was David Thomas Carmichael. In other words, someone's memory has failed them, and they gave you an incorrect name. This is very common; don't simply believe what your relatives tell you - people often confuse names and places and one branch of the family with another.
4. Why is it so hard to find information on European ancestors?
Everyone who was born in England or Wales since 1837 should have had his or her birth registered by the state. However, it's estimated that in some parts of the country, as many as 15% of all births were not registered in the decades after 1837, because there was no penalty on parents for failing to register until 1875. Also, some parents believed that it wasn't necessary to register the birth if the child was baptized. Therefore, if you're looking for your English ancestors.
Jumat, 27 Oktober 2017
Building Your Family Tree 101: How to Find Your Irish or Scottish Ancestors
Did your ancestors come from Europe – in particular Ireland or Scotland? It's quite possible to find their records. You may even be lucky enough to find records online, because as more and more people become intrigued with their origins, more are being made available.
If Your Ancestors Came from Ireland
Huge numbers of Irish people left Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century when famine forced many people to look for a new and better life in another country. When you're trying to locate records, it's vital that you know as much as possible: if you can establish which town or village your ancestors came from, you'll know which government – whether Northern Ireland (Ulster) or the Republic of Ireland – now holds the records.
Start at the National Archives of Ireland at http://www.nationalarchives.ie/ and the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland at http://www.proni.gov.uk/. Irish Genealogy ([http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/non_flash/frame_1024.htm]) is also an excellent site, with many good resources.
You can apply on the site for a birth search for a birth after 1864, at which time civil registration of births began in Ireland. The search will cost 45 pounds (approximately USD $90), of which 20 pounds (approximately USD $45) is refundable if the search is unsuccessful.
If Your Ancestors Came from Ireland
Huge numbers of Irish people left Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century when famine forced many people to look for a new and better life in another country. When you're trying to locate records, it's vital that you know as much as possible: if you can establish which town or village your ancestors came from, you'll know which government – whether Northern Ireland (Ulster) or the Republic of Ireland – now holds the records.
Start at the National Archives of Ireland at http://www.nationalarchives.ie/ and the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland at http://www.proni.gov.uk/. Irish Genealogy ([http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/non_flash/frame_1024.htm]) is also an excellent site, with many good resources.
You can apply on the site for a birth search for a birth after 1864, at which time civil registration of births began in Ireland. The search will cost 45 pounds (approximately USD $90), of which 20 pounds (approximately USD $45) is refundable if the search is unsuccessful.
Kamis, 12 Oktober 2017
Researching Your Genealogy: Start with Living Family Members
A number of resources exist which can help you research your family heritage. If you're lucky, one of the best resources is close at hand: your own family. Stories passed down from generation to generation contain nuggets of information that can help you begin your search. Names of your parents and grandparents, and their parents, can take you back three or four generations. Don't ignore spouses of family relatives; not only do their personal stories add to the flavor of family history, sometimes the spouse of a family member - particularly the wife of a male relative - knows more about your family's history than the relative does.
Interview your family members to see what they know about family history. The older members in particular may have knowledge of your family tree for generations, as well as what these ancestors did for a living, where they lived, when and how they died, and personal stories they're more than willing to hand down to another generation. If you have birth or death certificates among family records, you're in luck; birth certificates will contain a birth date, name of parents, and location of birth. The place of birth in particular will give you a clue as to where to look for further information.
Be aware that family recollections can be wrong. A couple personal experiences: My middle name is May, which was given to me in honor of my father's aunt who raised him. My parents ended up being upset when they found out later that my aunt's name wasn't May, it was really Mary. But it doesn't stop there: while I was researching my aunt's death I came across her obituary in the local newspaper, and it turns out her name wasn't May or Mary - it was Ruth!
Meanwhile, on my mother's side of the family, it was well known that her grandfather's name was Francis Isaac Barrott, that he had lived and died in Worcester, Massachusetts, and that he had actually worked as a maintenance man at City Hall. I contacted the records department of the city of Worcester looking for any records of Francis Isaac Barrott, and found nothing. Later, I obtained my mother's father's death certificate (he had died at the relatively young age of 37) and discovered that his father had signed his own son's death certificate - as "Frank R. Barrott".
Once you've gleaned as much as you can from living relatives, it's time to access public records. Birth and death records, deeds, and military records are among those available for research, as are U.S. Census records, from the years 1790 up to 1930 (by law, census records cannot be released to the public for 75 years). When searching census records, start with the latest census and move backward; this way you may be able to track the changes in family circumstances back through the years.
Searching public records has become a lot easier since the introduction of the Internet. A popular software program available online, Ancestry.com, allows you to build your family tree and search U.S. Census databases and other public records.
A lot of books are available to help you on your family search. One of the best is Genealogy 101: How to Trace Your Family's History and Heritage, by Barbara Renick in association with the National Genealogical Society (Rutledge Hill Press, 2003). Renick offers an organized approach to genealogical research that will save you a lot of false starts.
If you've been thinking for a while about beginning a serious search into your family's background, don't put it off. Your best resource, your older family members, is a finite resource. Once they pass on, their knowledge is gone forever.
Interview your family members to see what they know about family history. The older members in particular may have knowledge of your family tree for generations, as well as what these ancestors did for a living, where they lived, when and how they died, and personal stories they're more than willing to hand down to another generation. If you have birth or death certificates among family records, you're in luck; birth certificates will contain a birth date, name of parents, and location of birth. The place of birth in particular will give you a clue as to where to look for further information.
Be aware that family recollections can be wrong. A couple personal experiences: My middle name is May, which was given to me in honor of my father's aunt who raised him. My parents ended up being upset when they found out later that my aunt's name wasn't May, it was really Mary. But it doesn't stop there: while I was researching my aunt's death I came across her obituary in the local newspaper, and it turns out her name wasn't May or Mary - it was Ruth!
Meanwhile, on my mother's side of the family, it was well known that her grandfather's name was Francis Isaac Barrott, that he had lived and died in Worcester, Massachusetts, and that he had actually worked as a maintenance man at City Hall. I contacted the records department of the city of Worcester looking for any records of Francis Isaac Barrott, and found nothing. Later, I obtained my mother's father's death certificate (he had died at the relatively young age of 37) and discovered that his father had signed his own son's death certificate - as "Frank R. Barrott".
Once you've gleaned as much as you can from living relatives, it's time to access public records. Birth and death records, deeds, and military records are among those available for research, as are U.S. Census records, from the years 1790 up to 1930 (by law, census records cannot be released to the public for 75 years). When searching census records, start with the latest census and move backward; this way you may be able to track the changes in family circumstances back through the years.
Searching public records has become a lot easier since the introduction of the Internet. A popular software program available online, Ancestry.com, allows you to build your family tree and search U.S. Census databases and other public records.
A lot of books are available to help you on your family search. One of the best is Genealogy 101: How to Trace Your Family's History and Heritage, by Barbara Renick in association with the National Genealogical Society (Rutledge Hill Press, 2003). Renick offers an organized approach to genealogical research that will save you a lot of false starts.
If you've been thinking for a while about beginning a serious search into your family's background, don't put it off. Your best resource, your older family members, is a finite resource. Once they pass on, their knowledge is gone forever.
Selasa, 29 Agustus 2017
Doing Genealogical Research? What You Should Know About Birth Certificates
Recently, millions of people all over the world are becoming more involved in doing ancestral research and with the development of the internet and vast genealogical databases', finding your ancestors is getting easier and more convenient. If you are someone who is just beginning doing research or someone who has been researching ancestors for years, the information presented in this article should be beneficial to you. In the text that follows, I have outlined some basic things regarding birth certificates that you should be aware of.
If you can obtain a birth certificate, then you are well on your way to finding accurate ancestral information. A birth certificate is the first vital document of a person's life. It is also a very key piece in the research process. The information found on Birth certificates varies by state or region and include such things as: the name of the child, the date and place of birth, the full names of the father and mother. Some localities also include information regarding the father's occupation, the mother's maiden name, the birth dates and places of the parents, other children had by the parents, etc.
Due to a law passed around 1910, all vital records, including birth certificates, were required to be kept. Starting February 1, 1914, the Division of Vital Records collected and maintained all birth certificates. There are several records that are available for people born prior to 1914, but these may be harder to come by. Also, it should be noted that birth certificates do not become available to the public until they are at least 100 years old. This may make it even more difficult to obtain a birth certificate for your ancestors. If you do wish to obtain a birth certificate for someone who was born less than 100 years ago you will need to provide the following information:
o The full name of the person on the birth certificate
o The date of birth
o The city or town and county of birth
o The father's full name
o The mother's full name, to include her maiden name
o The requester's relationship to the person named on the certificate
o The requester's reason for requesting the certificate
You will also have to pay for the birth certificate. Prices to obtain a birth record are anywhere from $10 to $30. However, most state and local governments charge around $15.
Keep in mind that you may not actually need to obtain an official birth certificate to verify your genealogical research. Birth records are maintained by the board of heath, the bureau of vital statistics, or the county clerk's office. All birth records are required to be kept whether or not the infant lives. This means that you should be able to at least verify any ancestors in which some record was kept. Even if you cannot obtain an official birth certificate, you may be able to get a copy of the birth certificate or a copy of the register or log book where the information regarding birth was kept.
As you can see, birth certificates can provide you with a substantial amount of concrete information about your ancestors. While all vital records, including birth were not required to be kept before 1910 there are many that are available. If you need more information about obtaining a birth certificate, a copy of a birth certificate or just need to verify that the information you have regarding an ancestor is accurate, contact the local board of health, bureau of vital statistics, of the county clerk's office of the person you are researching to find out more. Good luck to you in your ancestral research and most importantly, have fun with it!
If you can obtain a birth certificate, then you are well on your way to finding accurate ancestral information. A birth certificate is the first vital document of a person's life. It is also a very key piece in the research process. The information found on Birth certificates varies by state or region and include such things as: the name of the child, the date and place of birth, the full names of the father and mother. Some localities also include information regarding the father's occupation, the mother's maiden name, the birth dates and places of the parents, other children had by the parents, etc.
Due to a law passed around 1910, all vital records, including birth certificates, were required to be kept. Starting February 1, 1914, the Division of Vital Records collected and maintained all birth certificates. There are several records that are available for people born prior to 1914, but these may be harder to come by. Also, it should be noted that birth certificates do not become available to the public until they are at least 100 years old. This may make it even more difficult to obtain a birth certificate for your ancestors. If you do wish to obtain a birth certificate for someone who was born less than 100 years ago you will need to provide the following information:
o The full name of the person on the birth certificate
o The date of birth
o The city or town and county of birth
o The father's full name
o The mother's full name, to include her maiden name
o The requester's relationship to the person named on the certificate
o The requester's reason for requesting the certificate
You will also have to pay for the birth certificate. Prices to obtain a birth record are anywhere from $10 to $30. However, most state and local governments charge around $15.
Keep in mind that you may not actually need to obtain an official birth certificate to verify your genealogical research. Birth records are maintained by the board of heath, the bureau of vital statistics, or the county clerk's office. All birth records are required to be kept whether or not the infant lives. This means that you should be able to at least verify any ancestors in which some record was kept. Even if you cannot obtain an official birth certificate, you may be able to get a copy of the birth certificate or a copy of the register or log book where the information regarding birth was kept.
As you can see, birth certificates can provide you with a substantial amount of concrete information about your ancestors. While all vital records, including birth were not required to be kept before 1910 there are many that are available. If you need more information about obtaining a birth certificate, a copy of a birth certificate or just need to verify that the information you have regarding an ancestor is accurate, contact the local board of health, bureau of vital statistics, of the county clerk's office of the person you are researching to find out more. Good luck to you in your ancestral research and most importantly, have fun with it!
Kamis, 10 Agustus 2017
Preserve Your Family History by Writing Your Family Stories
"Everyone has a story to tell." It seems like a cliche--but it's true. After working as a newspaper reporter for more than eight years, I know that everyone does, indeed, have a story to tell.
But even before I started working as a journalist, I knew that life experiences make interesting stories. Consider my parents.
My mother was the daughter of Norwegian immigrants, and her grandfather homesteaded our dairy farm in Wisconsin in the late 1800s. My father was the son of German and Scottish immigrants. When Dad was a little boy, his parents worked as cooks in a lumber camp in northern Wisconsin. As I was growing up, Mom and Dad would tell stories about their own childhoods. When Mom was a little girl, the whole family would sleep in the screen porch on hot summer nights. Indians also used to stop at our farm, and gypsies would camp nearby during the summer. When Dad was a little boy, he enjoyed spending time at the lumber camp kitchen because all of the cooks knew that little boys needed special treats during the day: a piece of Key-Lime pie, a slice of chocolate cake, or a couple of extra-large sugar cookies. When Dad wasn't staying with his parents at the lumber camp, he lived with his grandmother, a tiny tough-as-nails German woman who owned a German shepherd named Happy.
Unfortunately, I never wrote down any of those stories, and I never asked Mom and Dad to sit down with a tape recorder and tell those stories. My mother died in 1985 at the age of 68, and my father passed away in 1992 at the age of 78. The majority of their stories, except for the few that I remember, are lost forever. Your family stories do not have to share the same fate.
Here are some tips for writing your family stories:
Decide which person you want to interview first (Grandma or Grandpa, Mom or Dad, Aunt or Uncle), and then tell that person about your plan to write a collection of family stories and ask for permission to conduct an interview.
Set a formal date and time for the interview. This will give your interviewee an opportunity to mentally prepare and to remember various stories that he or she would like to talk about.
Provide a list of questions several days or weeks before the interview. This will also give your interviewee time to remember various stories.
Focus on a single subject or event in your list of questions--school, holidays (Christmas, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July), birthdays, seasons (spring, summer, winter, fall)--the list is endless.
Ask open-ended questions and not "yes or no" questions. "How did you get to school?" is better than "Did you walk to school when you were growing up?"
Use a tape recorder to record the interview. Taping the interview will help you gather details that you might miss if you are only taking notes.
Chat about something else for a while if the person you are interviewing seems nervous at the prospect of being tape-recorded. Your interviewee will soon relax and won't even notice the tape recorder. And once you start the interview, you will find that one subject will lead to another and one question will lead to another.
Transcribe the tape and write up your notes after you have finished the interview. This, in itself, will provide a fine record of the stories that are told "in their own words." And you will be in good company--Studs Terkel's oral history books are written that way, and they are fascinating to read. Terkel's books include Division Street (1967), Hard Times (1970), Working (1974), The Good War (1984), The Great Divide (1988), and RACE (1992).
After you have finished all of your interviews and have written down the stories, print the stories from your computer and put them into a three-ring binder. Make multiple copies and give them to family members as gifts. Or you might want to consider publishing the stories POD (print-on-demand). There are many POD companies, and for a price that starts out at a couple of hundred dollars, you can publish the stories as a trade paperback. To find POD companies, conduct an Internet search with the keywords, "print-on-demand."
Here are some examples of questions to help you get started with your interviews:
Subject: school
Where did you go to school when you were growing up?
Tell me about any amusing or unusual incidents that happened on your way to or from school.
What kinds of clothes did you wear?
How many students were in your class? How many students were in the whole school? How many grades?
What was your favorite subject? Why?
What was your least-favorite subject? Why?
Who was your favorite teacher? Why?
Who was your least-favorite teacher? Why?
Tell me about your best friend.
Tell me about your happiest moments in school. What was your best accomplishment?
Tell me about your worst moments in school. Did you learn anything from your worst moments?
What advice would you give to students who are in school today?
But even before I started working as a journalist, I knew that life experiences make interesting stories. Consider my parents.
My mother was the daughter of Norwegian immigrants, and her grandfather homesteaded our dairy farm in Wisconsin in the late 1800s. My father was the son of German and Scottish immigrants. When Dad was a little boy, his parents worked as cooks in a lumber camp in northern Wisconsin. As I was growing up, Mom and Dad would tell stories about their own childhoods. When Mom was a little girl, the whole family would sleep in the screen porch on hot summer nights. Indians also used to stop at our farm, and gypsies would camp nearby during the summer. When Dad was a little boy, he enjoyed spending time at the lumber camp kitchen because all of the cooks knew that little boys needed special treats during the day: a piece of Key-Lime pie, a slice of chocolate cake, or a couple of extra-large sugar cookies. When Dad wasn't staying with his parents at the lumber camp, he lived with his grandmother, a tiny tough-as-nails German woman who owned a German shepherd named Happy.
Unfortunately, I never wrote down any of those stories, and I never asked Mom and Dad to sit down with a tape recorder and tell those stories. My mother died in 1985 at the age of 68, and my father passed away in 1992 at the age of 78. The majority of their stories, except for the few that I remember, are lost forever. Your family stories do not have to share the same fate.
Here are some tips for writing your family stories:
Decide which person you want to interview first (Grandma or Grandpa, Mom or Dad, Aunt or Uncle), and then tell that person about your plan to write a collection of family stories and ask for permission to conduct an interview.
Set a formal date and time for the interview. This will give your interviewee an opportunity to mentally prepare and to remember various stories that he or she would like to talk about.
Provide a list of questions several days or weeks before the interview. This will also give your interviewee time to remember various stories.
Focus on a single subject or event in your list of questions--school, holidays (Christmas, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July), birthdays, seasons (spring, summer, winter, fall)--the list is endless.
Ask open-ended questions and not "yes or no" questions. "How did you get to school?" is better than "Did you walk to school when you were growing up?"
Use a tape recorder to record the interview. Taping the interview will help you gather details that you might miss if you are only taking notes.
Chat about something else for a while if the person you are interviewing seems nervous at the prospect of being tape-recorded. Your interviewee will soon relax and won't even notice the tape recorder. And once you start the interview, you will find that one subject will lead to another and one question will lead to another.
Transcribe the tape and write up your notes after you have finished the interview. This, in itself, will provide a fine record of the stories that are told "in their own words." And you will be in good company--Studs Terkel's oral history books are written that way, and they are fascinating to read. Terkel's books include Division Street (1967), Hard Times (1970), Working (1974), The Good War (1984), The Great Divide (1988), and RACE (1992).
After you have finished all of your interviews and have written down the stories, print the stories from your computer and put them into a three-ring binder. Make multiple copies and give them to family members as gifts. Or you might want to consider publishing the stories POD (print-on-demand). There are many POD companies, and for a price that starts out at a couple of hundred dollars, you can publish the stories as a trade paperback. To find POD companies, conduct an Internet search with the keywords, "print-on-demand."
Here are some examples of questions to help you get started with your interviews:
Subject: school
Where did you go to school when you were growing up?
Tell me about any amusing or unusual incidents that happened on your way to or from school.
What kinds of clothes did you wear?
How many students were in your class? How many students were in the whole school? How many grades?
What was your favorite subject? Why?
What was your least-favorite subject? Why?
Who was your favorite teacher? Why?
Who was your least-favorite teacher? Why?
Tell me about your best friend.
Tell me about your happiest moments in school. What was your best accomplishment?
Tell me about your worst moments in school. Did you learn anything from your worst moments?
What advice would you give to students who are in school today?
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