Interview+Resources

[[file:Interviewing Guide.doc]]
Handout created by Mrs. Hirsch summarizing interview strategies and suggestions.

[] This is a comprehensive guide from the Smithsonian. It has different sections of interest and **possible interview questions**.

@http://www.placematters.net/node/1661 City Lore Interviewing Guide

http://www.loc.gov/folklife/familyfolklife/oralhistory.html#tips This page is from the LOC and is a brief, overall guide. It gives quick tips on oral history preparation and questioning strategies.

Question lists & strategies:
@http://genealogy.about.com/cs/oralhistory/a/interview.htm Gives 50 interview questions you might ask in a family history interview. Some questions are geared specifically for finding out about relatives, but there are a lot of questions that would be appropriate for the decades project, for finding out about living in these decades.

@http://storycorps.org/record-your-story/question-generator/list/ StoryCorps Great Questions List--Question ideas based on who and why you are interviewing.

@http://home.earthlink.net/~ahickling/interviewsuggestions.html Interview tips and question ideas. Scroll down to check out "CONNECT TO LARGER HISTORY" question ideas for 1930s thru 1960s.