Week 4 Summary & Objectives

During week 4, let's find out more about our relatives’ lives so we can share their stories on Family Search.

Step 1: Pray Who to Interview

 

Step 2: Take the time to interview your relative, by phone, virtual meeting or in person. Put yourself in their shoes and try to relive their life personally

 

Step 3: Their stories can be recorded in FamilySearch after they are deceased.

 

This is such a valuable thing to do, especially with aging grandparents, before they pass away. Make a recording on your phone while you interview them.

Once the Logan FamilySearch Library opens, they will do a two-hour video interview of your older family members. Call in and schedule with the Library. We have a list of questions you can ask them, or you can just let them give their life story. When through, you will receive a nice DVD of the interview. Much nicer to have video than just audio.

The interview at the Logan FamilySearch Library is not just for older people. A returned missionary could come in and have a video made telling of their missionary experiences and bearing their testimony. This is especially valuable later, particularly for those returned missionaries who may get distracted and wander from Gospel activity. They can’t deny what they once bore testimony of.

 

 

Suggestions for Interview Questions:

  1. What is one of your favorite childhood memories?
  2. What was your most embarrassing moment?
  3. What do you remember about your grandmother or grandfather?
  4. What is one of your favorite family memories?
  5. How is life different now than when you were a child?
  6. What was your favorite food or toy as a child?
  7. What was your favorite family tradition?
  8. What activities did you participate in as a youth?
  9. Did you go to church as a child? If so, what was it like?
  10. What was your house like as a child?
  11. What occupations did your father and mother have?
  12. What is one life lesson that you learned from your father or mother (or both)?
  13. When you were young, what did you want to be when you grew up?
  14. What was your favorite subject to study in school?
  15. What jobs have you had? What did you like about them?
  16. Where is an interesting place you have traveled to?
  17. How did you meet your spouse?
  18. What was it like having a family and raising children?
  19. What does family mean to you?
  20. What would you like future generations of your family to remember about you?
  21. ______________________________________________________________? (Create your own question.)

 

Here are some links to some additional interview questions:

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/bc/content/ldsorg/topics/family-history/host-a-family-history-fair/admin-page-file/activities/PD60000121_Some_Grandmother.pdf?lang=eng

 

https://www.deseret.com/2014/2/11/20534743/genealogy-150-questions-to-ask-family-members-about-their-lives#here-are-ideas-of-questions-to-ask-when-interviewing-a-family-member-about-their-history

 

 

Optional Idea:

Another fun interview can be with a returned missionary.  Memories can be easily lost if you do not record them.  When we review those memories in life, often they can be a strength to us.

“We are all strengthen when we look back over our lives and remember the moments when we felt the Savior with us and know that He was pleased with us!” President Henry B Eyring

 

Suggested Returned Missionary Interview Questions:

  1. Where did you serve your mission?
  2. What years did you serve?
  3. What are some of the foods you ate? What was the most memorable foods you ate?
  4. Which members did you grow the closest to and what are some of the experiences you had with them?
  5. What experience changed you the most?
  6. What service opportunities did you have?
  7. Which companions helped you to grow the most and why?
  8. How did you see God’s love in your life and the lives of others?
  9. Was there and event that you knew was a direct answer to prayer?
  10. Is there one person you served with who was very influential and who you greatly admired? What were some of his/her attributes?
  11. Tell about a time when you didn’t know if you would be able to make it through to the end?
  12. What advice would you give to someone else thinking about serving a mission?
  13. What scripture speaks to you the most and why?
  14. When did you feel closest to the Savior? What did it feel like? How did your relationship with him change over the course of your mission?
  15. Is there something you would like to tell your 40-year-old self?
  16. Bear your testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ in a foreign language, if you learned one.

 

 

 

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