Have you asked these questions of your elderly relatives QUESTIONAIRE FOR INTERVIEWING ELDERLY RELATIVES: Memories of: First days at school/teachers Secondary school Schoolyard games, e.g. marbles, swap cards, knuckles, hop scotch, skippy etc Going to church Ministers/priests Going on holidays and their locations Visiting the cemetery First job, hours per week, pay, conditions Family pets Experiences with death " " birth Family weddings First falling in love Dating customs The Depression The War Years Family superstitions Family predjudices/racism Father's employment Father out of work/working away from home Mother's employment Mother's favourite occupations in the home Family friends First house and neighbourhood My bedroom/kitchen/neighbourhood Family garden/fruit trees/vegie patch Best friend Entertainment, e.g. dances, footy, movies Household smells Main Street in town Transport, e.g. horse & cart, car, trams, trains, etc Household deliveries, e.g. baker, iceman, rent collector, groacer, butcher Old photographs Stories my mother used to tell " " father " " " Your Grandparents/Great Grandparents Radio programs/tv programs Books I used to read/books read to me Family games we used to play Family and personal hobbies Family outings, e.g picnics, sea bathing, concerts, theatre, school functions Household chores - who did what? Family routines and rituals Music we played or listened to Family doctor/dentist Hospital - as a patient or a visitor Newspapers, comics, magazines we read Police force and law enforcement Voting and family politics Crimes - by others or family members Pubs, 6 0'clock closing, temperance attitudes Childhood diseases, e.g. polio, diptheria, whooping cough, tuberculosis, measles Natural disasters, e.g. bushfires, floods, storms, etc Local and city shows, e. g. Melbourne Show Local and state footy teams barracked for The Olympic Games Moving house/town/school Migrants coming to the community Family Skeletons/gossip "Strange relations- where did they fit in, and whose were they? Wealthy relations Things that were never talked about John P LAWS Registrar@lawsfamilyregister.org.uk Registrar@lawsfamilyassn.org.uk http://www.lawsfamilyregister.org.uk laws@one-name.org Listowner:- laws-uk-l@rootsweb.com Listowner:- wolstencroft-l@rootsweb.com Listowner:- tree-warden-links-l@nature.rootsweb.com Member of GOONS Putting Flesh on the Bones of History Join our newsgroup send a mail to LAWS-UK-L-Request@Rootsweb.com put nothing in the message other than the word SUBSCRIBE The LAWS FAMILY REGISTER welcomes your support, for details go to our website http://www.lawsfamilyregister.org.uk THIS Email is made out of environmentally friendly ASCII Text. Feel free to forward our newsletters to anyone who might be interested. This e-mail does NOT have any attachments from us. Any attachment should be regarded as a virus and be deleted. In this case, please notify us immediately!