A Grandchildren’s Guide to Interviewing Their Grandparents (And Other Elders)

A Grandchildren’s Guide to Interviewing Their Grandparents (And Other Elders)

Their stories are priceless. Don’t wait until it’s too late to ask.

Every grandparent carries a lifetime of stories—childhood adventures, family traditions, first loves, hard times, proud moments, lessons learned and memories that may exist nowhere else but in their mind.

A Grandchildren’s Guide to Interviewing Their Grandparents shows young people—and adults, too—how to turn those memories into a lasting family treasure.

This practical, easy-to-follow guide walks you through the entire process: preparing for an interview, asking questions that inspire real stories instead of one-word answers, listening and asking meaningful follow-up questions, using family photographs and documents to unlock forgotten memories, recording the conversation, and preserving it for generations to come.

Best of all, the guide includes 300 thoughtfully organized interview questions covering childhood, parents and family, school days, coming of age, love and marriage, work, parenting, everyday life, historic events, hardships, resilience, wisdom and legacy.

You don't have to be a historian. You don't need expensive equipment. You simply need someone whose story matters—and the willingness to ask.

Someday, a recording of a grandparent telling their own story in their own voice may become one of your family's most treasured possessions.

95 pages • Digital e-book • $4.99