Oral history

Learn about your family line through oral history and interviewing relatives. Here are all the questions and prompts and interview tips you need to get started.

If you want to find out more about your family, download the life history questions and make time to interview your family members. Learn some fun facts.

“Capturing the Living Past: An Oral History Primer,” by Barbara W. Sommer and Mary Kay Quinlan for the Nebraska Historical Society; a thorough primer in Q

Tutorials: Beginning an Oral History Project – Samuel Proctor Oral History Program

Oral Project Freebie for Middle School Social Studies teachers to use in their classrooms.

When I began long-distance backpacking, I never thought it would eventually become my occupation. To the contrary, I was simply drawn to the idea of hiking from Georgia to Maine—that, somehow, an effort on that scale probably was an experience worth having. My motivations for taking on the Alaska-Yukon Expedition, my most recent adventure, were very…

One of my favourite parts of recording my family history is the oral history - hearing all those stories that just would never have made the official document record or even newspaper! It's such a fascinating part of your family tree research, but it's al

My first introduction to oral history was in the form of a 2001 radio story that aired on This American Life. (I feel like a lot of oral historians’ origin