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Sunday, December 31, 2006

Ringing in the New Year with some Resolve

My new year’s resolutions come in two parts— things I personally resolve to do with my own family history, and things I resolve to do on this website. Ideas for personal resolutions come from that inner nagging or cringe sensation (why is it nag and cringe rather than simple drooling?), and ideas for the site came from a fabulous afteroon this past week brainstorming with a friend about this website. Disclaimer: I don’t know if all of these are resolutions, but here’s my ongoing To-Do list.

Interview Dad. I’m going to sit down with my Dad and interview him. (I’ve done some interviewing of Mom this last year — you mighta seen the 3 minute movie I made from a story my Mom told me.) I interviewed my Mom last Mother’s Day, but I’m not going to wait until Father’s Day to interview my Dad. I did show him the forms and materials for the Veterans’ History Project, so he’s got an idea of what we’ll talk about. More

Interviewing Family: Kim von Aspern-Parker of Le Maison Duchamps, Part 2

In this second half of my interview with Kim von Aspern-Parker (Kim von Aspern-Parker, Part 1) about interviewing family,… Read More...

Interviewing Family: Kim von Aspern-Parker of Le Maison Duchamps, Part 1

The first interview in this “Jamboree Genealogy Bloggers talk about Interviewing Family” series is with Kim von Aspern-Parker, who… Read More...

How does genealogical research differ from interviewing family?

Back in June, at Jamboree in Burbank, I spoke to four people about their experience recording interviews with family… Read More...

Roundup of my posts regarding interviewing family (the “not at Rootstech because I’m sick” edition)

I’m not at Rootstech because I’m sick (I was registered, tho). Dang. As tweets and posts emerge from it,… Read More...

The Scrapbook Belonging to Great Aunt Doris

What an album, what a treasure. This is my Great Aunt Doris’ photo album/scrapbook. In honor of the 100th… Read More...

Thanksgiving table talk and the National Day of Listening

Here’s a roundup of practical Thanksgiving Day advice for ways to collect family history around the Thanksgiving table. (Or… Read More...

Genealogy Gems Podcast meets Family Oral History (at Jamboree)

I was interviewed for the Genealogy Gems podcast back in June, at the SCGS Jamboree in Burbank. Lisa Louise… Read More...

Greetings from Jamboree

I’m at the Genealogy Jamboree in Burbank. You can follow twitter chatter about the conference at the hashtag #scgs10. This… Read More...