{"id":4680,"date":"2018-12-23T19:13:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T01:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enchantedfamily.com\/blog\/50-questions-to-ask-relatives-about-your-family\/"},"modified":"2018-12-23T19:13:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T01:13:45","slug":"questions-to-ask-relatives-about-your-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/family\/questions-to-ask-relatives-about-your-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions to Ask Relatives About Your Family&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"heading by-line-top hide-desktop\">A great way to uncover or to get great quotes for journaling in a heritage scrapbook is a family interview. By asking the right, open-ended questions, you&#8217;re sure to collect a wealth of . Use this list of family history interview questions to help you get started, but be sure to personalize the interview with your own questions as well.<\/p>\n<p>For more family history interview tips, see . Then continue to the family history interview questions below.<\/p>\n<h3>Questions to Ask Your Relatives<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"cb-split\">\n<li>What is your earliest childhood memory?<\/li>\n<li>Were there any special items in the house that you remember?<\/li>\n<li>What was the house (apartment, farm, etc.) like? How many rooms? Bathrooms? Did it have electricity? Indoor plumbing? Telephones?<\/li>\n<li>Were there other family members in the area? Who?<\/li>\n<li>How did your family come to live there?<\/li>\n<li>When and where were you born?<\/li>\n<li>What is your full name? Why did your parents select this name for you? Did you have a nickname?<\/li>\n<li>Describe the personalities of your family members.<\/li>\n<li>What kind of games did you play growing up?<\/li>\n<li>What was your favorite toy and why?<\/li>\n<li>What was your favorite thing to do for fun (movies, beach, etc.)?<\/li>\n<li>Did you have family chores? What were they? Which was your least favorite?<\/li>\n<li>Did you receive an allowance? How much? Did you save your money or spend it?<\/li>\n<li>What was school like for you as a child? What were your best and worst subjects? Where did you attend grade school? High school? College?<\/li>\n<li>What school activities and sports did you participate in?<\/li>\n<li>Do you remember any fads from your youth? Popular hairstyles? Clothes?<\/li>\n<li>Who were your childhood heroes?<\/li>\n<li>What were your favorite songs and music?<\/li>\n<li>Did you have any pets? If so, what kind and what were their names?<\/li>\n<li>What was your religion growing up? What church, if any, did you attend?<\/li>\n<li>Were you ever ?<\/li>\n<li>Who were your friends when you were growing up?<\/li>\n<li>What world events had the most impact on you while you were growing up? Did any of them personally affect your family?<\/li>\n<li>Describe a typical family dinner. Did you all eat together as a family? Who did the cooking? What were your ?<\/li>\n<li>How were holidays (birthdays, Christmas, etc.) celebrated in your family? Did your family have special traditions?<\/li>\n<li>How is the world today different from what it was like when you were a child?<\/li>\n<li>Who was the oldest relative you remember as a child? What do you remember about them?<\/li>\n<li>What do you know about your ?<\/li>\n<li>Is there a naming tradition in your family, such as always giving the firstborn son the name of his paternal grandfather?<\/li>\n<li>What stories have come down to you about your parents? Grandparents? More distant ancestors?<\/li>\n<li>Are there any stories about in your family?<\/li>\n<li>Have any recipes been passed down to you from family members?<\/li>\n<li>Are there any physical characteristics that run in your family?<\/li>\n<li>Are there any special heirlooms, photos, bibles or other memorabilia that have been passed down in your family?<\/li>\n<li>What was the full name of your spouse? Siblings? Parents?<\/li>\n<li>When and how did you meet your spouse? What did you do on dates?<\/li>\n<li>What was it like when you proposed (or were proposed to)? Where and when did it happen? How did you feel?<\/li>\n<li>Where and when did you get married?<\/li>\n<li>What memory stands out the most from your wedding day?<\/li>\n<li>How would you describe your spouse? What do (did) you admire most about them?<\/li>\n<li>What do you believe is the key to a successful marriage?<\/li>\n<li>How did you find out your were going to be a parent for the first time?<\/li>\n<li>Why did you choose your children&#8217;s names?<\/li>\n<li>What was your proudest moment as a parent?<\/li>\n<li>What did your family enjoy doing together?<\/li>\n<li>What was and how did you choose it?<\/li>\n<li>If you could have had any other profession what would it have been? Why wasn&#8217;t it your first choice?<\/li>\n<li>Of all the things you learned from your parents, which do you feel was the most valuable?<\/li>\n<li>What accomplishments were you the most proud of?<\/li>\n<li>What is the one thing you most want people to remember about you?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While these questions make great conversation starters, the best way to uncover the good stuff is through more of a storytelling session than a QA.&nbsp;To help make your interviewee more comfortable and encourage conversation, try these .\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great way to uncover or to get great quotes for journaling in a heritage scrapbook is a family interview. By asking the right, open-ended questions, you&#8217;re sure to collect a wealth of . 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