Subject: MY very own RECOLLECTIONS - Extra Credit! 101/100 A A. There are surely other questions that you could address. You can find them in many areas.... 1. RECORDING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY BY WILLIAM FLETCHER by Gamut, NY NY. ISBN 0-396-08887-2 1983, 1986 runs about 300 pages 2. Shirley Hornbeck http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~hornbeck 3. commentary on interviews and questionnaire http://www.genealogybookshop.com/genealogybookshop/files/General,General_Reference/9377.html 4. Interviewing Grandma http://www.rootdig.com/adn/interviewinggrandma.html 5. http://www.rootdig.com/adn/yourancestorsbiography.html 6. Do a search on google.com with these words exactly, including spaces and placement of + marks: interview +questions +genealogy 7. Cyndislist.com at http://www.cyndislist.com/writing.htm 8. Turn your volume to a nice level....(no need to blast anyone...) To STOP, merely click on the black square... Perhaps, you will listen to the music and write a NICE recollection... Until you actually CLICK the screen closed or hit the stop, you are free to do other things while you listen.... So, it is nice mood music for writing recollections... The little bit of info on each of the song links is nice... gives a few dates... some songsmith names... might be something you would consider for your mood music for later writings. If you scroll to the bottom of the page you will see many songs....... ON some, there are some voice recordings... if you decide to click on these, your virus checker or firewall might stop them.... It is your decision to click YES or not Fix you volume now, to a nice level and click http://www.rienzihills.com/SING/astimegoesby.htm 9. and this music site: http://www.smickandsmodoo.com/master/masterindex4602.htm 10. Cyndi's List http://www.cyndislist.com/oral.htm 11. Gene Pool http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/oralhist.htm An excellent list of questions. Ask all of these and you will be spending the week with your relative. 12. Lake Township (Stark County, OH) Historical Society http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohlths/interview2.htm 13. http://www.crazyfads.com/ B. Here is an interesting site to help with illustrations and perhaps more triggers. www.ourtimelines.com C. 1. Take the time to re-read your material for obvious errors. Do not drastically change what you have written. Add notes to the bottom of what you have written rather than change your THOUGHT at the original writing. Underline (or in some manner, mark them) those words that you could use as keywords to illustrate... Go into your own files or those of google.com/IMAGES and either place them in their appropriate places in the text or in a separate picture book, (use footnoting techniques to link them ). 2. As you re-read, add FULL names for all the common references you have made (grandma WHO?) - use footnoting techniques for each of your stories so that you do not destroy the casual reading of your work.... D. Create a title page for your "Book" including your full name, date of birth, date of writings, and give the entire compilation a title that you like. E. Create a mini-genealogy chart of all those names on your 'special list" so that your reader has information AT A GLANCE. F. Place ALL the information on some archival media form that you like. Print a copy to use as a master to duplicate for others in your family to be continued in B and C......