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An Oral History Primer

Conducting Oral Histories with Family Members

From the UCLA Library.

DoHistory - Step-by-Step Guide to Oral History

Family Legends - Can they be trusted?

Family Narrative Project (Facebook) Updated

We help you tell your family stories through online courses, workshops, writing prompts and free information. We help people explore, save, and share family and individual stories, so you leave a meaningful legacy for future generations.

Genealogy.com - Organizing Oral History Information

Genealogy.com - The Importance of Oral Histories

An article written by Lyman D. Platt, Ph.D.

H-Oralhist

A member of the H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences On-Line initiative.

imaStory.com - Everyone has a story!

A website that helps children interview and write the life stories of their parents and grandparents. Imastory is fun, free, easy to use and has a Lesson Plan for educators and a question guideline for students. The program is an excellent tool for schools, churches, not-for-profits and other organizations for creating not only life stories but also a friendlier and more productive community environment. Stories created can be printed and the books sold to friends and families as fundraisers.

Indiana University - Center for the Study of History and Memory - Oral History Techniques

Legacy Family Tree - Do Family Legends Have a Place in Genealogical Research?

Oral History in the Digital Age

Oral History Interviews, Why, How, Help with Oral Family History

Oral History Techniques - How to Organize and Conduct Oral History Interviews

Oral History Tips

From the University of California, Berkeley.

Preparing an Oral History

From the Museum Victoria and the Department of Education in Australia.

Southern Oral History Program

StoryCorps

Project to instruct and inspire people to record each others' stories in sound.

The Art of the Oral Historian

University of California, Santa Barbara Oral History Program.

The Legacy Recorder

A complete training on how to work with someone you love to tell their story and a community to support you along the way. Each step is broken down into easy to follow lessons that will have you writing in no time. Help someone you love to tell their story and create a lasting legacy of their memories.