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• Linda Shopes: web guides to doing oral history

• Lineages.com - Interview Your Relatives

• Miss Perry Comes to Washington

  Oral history of Jean Perry LOWMAN.

• MyHeritage - Questions for Relatives

  A list of good questions that you can print and bring along next time you visit an older relative.

• MyHeritage Blog - 25 Family History Questions You’ll Really Want to Ask

• National Day of Listening - Great Questions

  A list of questions to get a conversation going and to help you interview your family members.

• Oral History - Interviewing Relatives

  From the About.com genealogy section.

• Oral History in the Digital Age

• Oral History Interview, Questions and Topics

  A wonderful list of 83 possible questions.

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

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

• Oral History Techniques and Procedures

  By Stephen E. Everett for the Center of Military History.

• Oral History Tips Updated

  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 Updated

  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.

• The Smithsonian Folklife and Oral History Interviewing Guide

• The Smithsonian Folklife and Oral History Interviewing Guide Updated