Subject: Interview First Kiss - howtos Part 4 of 4 Where did you go to the DENTIST....Do you recall the first time... The Dentists name? Where did you go to get a professional photograph taken.... And on what occasions... Where did you purchase your wedding dress/suit.... Your wedding ring.... Did you jointly decide on wedding rings... What was your wedding day like...temp, kind of day, what were the festivities like... What was your proposal like...what were THE WORDS, THE ENVIRONMENT... What did your parents say when you told them.... What did you actually say when you told them.... How did you first meet... How soon before your first date and how soon before you married... Where did you first live as a couple....and then where.... Were you BORN at home or in a hospital... Were your children BORN in a hospital or at home... What did your childhood family grow on the farm as a cash crop... Did you have a vegetable stand... What were your responsibilities at the stand... How did your family get to church... What was different about church than today... What was the first television program that you saw... When did you first get a color television... a vcr... Do you know how to program the vcr or to fix the time... Do you have a CD player or cassette player or 8 track... Did you ever have an 8 track player... What is the last best movie that you saw.... Who is your favorite musical artist... When was the first time you were away from the childhood home.. When did you first get a microwave... What do you use it for mostly... When did you first buy a camera and why did you decide to buy it.. Do you have a computer that you use? What do you use it for... How did you learn to use it... When you were on the farm did you have animals.... Dairy? What kind of cows... And where did you take your milk What diary processed your milk.... Did you have geese, chickens, etc.. WHERE did you get the geese or ducks.. How did they get to your farm... Who were your best friends... Did they live near to the childhood home or near school... What was your hardest subject in school....easiest? WHO was your favorite teacher...subject, why... What color were your farm buildings and what was your silo made of... Did you ever smoke a pipe, cigar, cigarette.....Were any homemade... Who in the family is also a genealogist... Who in the family knows how to knit, crochet... How did they learn... Are any representative samples still around.... ASK about the saddest time in their lives..... BE SURE TO HAVE another question to follow this...perhaps: Did they ever smoke marijuana? And why was that? Did they have any pets... What happened when animals on the farm were sick.. When was the first time they drove a tractor? Did they ever break an arm or leg? or finger? Did their parent have all their fingers.. Do they know how the parent lost a finger - if appropro... Ask if anyone in the family had heart problems.. kidney problems... diabetes problems.... breathing problems... Heavy coughing, light coughing.... BAD snoring.... Ask WHEN these occurred in life...teens, 20's, 30's, 40's 50 hears old... The age is important here....it may help in determining for the future, whether these illnesses are part of environmental or hereditary reasons... make a note of these instances and time of life on your charts.. WHAT was Christmas morning like... How did you celebrate Birthdays... What did you wrap presents in... How did you celebrate HALLOWEEN.... HOW did you celebrate Thanksgiving.... What did you purchase for this meal and what did you have from the farm HOW did you get to grade school, to high school. At the second interview, ask them to get their photos out and their certificates, and all the stuff they have in their shoebox of old family stuff.... and use that as part of the second interview, along with the details of the OTHER parts of the family outline. This second interview is always the hardest because they are WORKING at remembering...so keep it shorter and set up a third visit..... start another video tape at each meeting....do not continue on the preceding tape... When you are done.be sure to make a copy..at least one. One for the interviewee,.one or two for your local library and maybe the historical society. Take that tab out of your original one AS SOON AS YOU TAKE IT FROM THE CAMERA.. to find this stuff again, check the roots archives with INTERACTIVE SEARCH Keyword KISS.. be prepared but ~ have fun... valentine