Questions used in the interview:

1. What is your full name including any nicknames you have or may have had in the past?

2. Were you named after somebody else?

3. What is your birth date, marriage date, and locations of each?

4. What are your parents' names and their grandparents' names, and any nicknames they may have had in the past?

5. What are their birth dates, marriage date, and locations of each?

6. What was it like for you growing up in the time period you did?

7. Where did you grow up?

8. Did your family move often and, if so, where and what time periods?

9. What kind of house did you live in when you were a child?

10. What is your fondest memory (of whomever you are wanting to know about)?

11. Did your parents or grandparents come to this state from another state? When?

12. What was the city, county, and state?

13. Do you remember your great-grandparents? What do you know about them?

14. Who was the oldest person you can remember in your family as a child? What do you remember about them?

15. Was there a chore you really hated doing as a child?

16. What would you consider to be the most important inventions that have been made during your lifetime?

17.How is the world different now from what it was like when you were a child?

18. What kinds of books did you like to read?

19. Do you ever remember not having enough food to eat because times were hard for your family?

20. What were your favorite toys and what were they like?

21.What were your schools like? How did you get there?

22 .Did you and your friends have a special hang-out where you liked to spend time?

23. Were you ever given any special awards for your studies or school activities?

24. How many years of education have you completed? Do you have a college degree?
If so, what was your field of study?

25. Were there any fads during your youth that you remember vividly?

26. How old were you when you started dating?

27. Do you remember your first date? Describe the circumstances.

28. How did you meet the person that you would later marry? Describe them?

29. Describe your wedding ceremony. Who was there?

30. Did you have a honeymoon? If so, where did you go?

31. What wise advice would you give to a grandchild on their wedding day?

32. How many children did you have all together? What were their names, birth dates and birthplaces?

33. If you had it to do all over again, would you change the way you raised your family? How?

34. What did you find most difficult about raising children?

35. What did you find most rewarding about being a parent?

36. As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?

37. What was your first job?

38. How did you decide on your career?

39. How old were you when you retired?

40. What were the hardest choices that you ever had to make? Do you feel like you made the right choices?

41. Who was the person that had the most positive influence on your life? Who were they and what did they do?

42. What wars have been fought during your lifetime? How did you feel about them?

43. If you served in the military, when and where did you serve and what were your duties?

44. What major illnesses or health problems do you remember having?

45. Do you have any health problems that are considered hereditary in nature? If so, what are they?

46. Have you ever been the victim of a crime? What happened?

47. What are your religious beliefs?

48. What activities have you especially enjoyed as an adult?

49. What pets have you had?

50. Is there anything you have always wanted to do, but haven't?

51. Will you agree to have this interview published?