Tuesday's Tip - Ask those questions & listen to the answers.

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Tuesday's Tip - While it is important to get the names, dates and places, we all know it is about more than those bare facts. We have this passion for genealogy and family history because we want to learn more, share more, and leave more to our extended families. Whether you focus on your own immediate family, or have branched out to your extended family, or have taken a specialized study on board (a one-name study, a one-place study, a cemetery study or any one of the many other interesting and lesser-known studies) - it is all about asking questions, writing up those stories, and piecing together any one of those varied family puzzles.

So how do you gather those stories? Where do you find those potential questions? When do you sit down with relatives and listen? Take advantage of the StoryCorps' Great Thanksgiving Listen (I love StoryCorps' mission and share it every year with our LVUG Community). StoryCorps received a grant last year and used it to make a mobile app - be sure to check it out. Why not make a date with some of the family elders to get a story or two to add to our national Story Corps' archive.

In addition to StoryCorps' website (a great resource), we all have a terrific resource in our Legacy program (the Interview Questions found at the Other Reports tab). You can use the questions "as is" or modify some, delete some, add some - all to make them your own. Why not print a page of questions off on a festive piece of paper and hand it out at your Thanksgiving get-together (collect them before you let your friends and family out the door).  I will show you what I am putting together (ready in time for next week's Tuesday's Tip) and hope you will share your Thanksgiving ideas for gathering those stories for our Legacy family files.

Thanksgiving in the USA is next Thursday - let's schedule some time to listen, learn and share.

https://storycorps.me/about/the-great-thanksgiving-listen/