172 Questions to Ask When Doing a Family History Interview

Are you asking yourself what you need to uncover or are you interviewing a family member to try to uncover some little tidbit that can open doors in your research or maybe just provide an insight into a person or family that has since passed on.

Questions can range from the simple, when was Johnny born, to How is our world today different from when you were a child. Here is a list of some possible questions to ask on a research interview with family members.

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These questions are intended to allow you to gather information on various family members and as such should be delivered within the course of a conversation. I would also suggest you limit yourself to a few questions at a time. I understand your desire to collect all the details, but remember, your passion for family history may not be a passion for others. While most family members are willing to help you when you explain what you are doing and promise to share your information, some may still prefer to hold onto some privacy, or even to continue to hide secrets.

172 Questions to Ask When Doing a Family History Interview

I carry a small notebook with the list of questions on the first pages. When I am with family members I will record information that correlates to a question, or perhaps insert questions into a conversation where they seem to fit. You may also choose about a dozen of the most important questions and put them into a hard copy questionnaire. You could then mail, or email, them to relations with a brief explanation of what you are doing, and most importantly why.

What is your full name and why were you named it? Were you named after somebody else? Did you have a nickname as you were growing up? If you did, what was it and why did they call you that? Have you had other nicknames as an adult? What do family members call you now? Where were you born and when? Do you remember hearing your grandparents describe their lives? What did they say? Do you remember your great-grandparents? What do you know about them? Who was the oldest person you can remember in your family as a child? What do you remember about them? Do you remember your family discussing world events and politics? Was there a chore you really hated doing as a child? What would you consider to be the most important inventions that have been made during your lifetime? How is the world now different from what it was like when you were a child? What kinds of books did you like to read? Do you remember having a favorite nursery rhyme or bedtime story? What was it? Do you ever remember not having enough food to eat because times were hard for your family? What were your favorite toys and what were they like? What were your favorite childhood games? What were your schools like? How did you get to school? What was your favorite subject in school and why? What subject in school was always the easiest for you? What was your least favorite subject in school and why? Who was your favorite teacher and why were they special? How do your fellow classmates from school remember you best? What school activities and sports did you participate in? Did you and your friends have a special hang-out where you liked to spend time? Where was it and what did you do there? Were you ever given any special awards for your studies or school activities? How many years of education have you completed? Do you have a college degree? If so, what was your field of study? Did you get good grades? Did you like school? What did you like the most and the least about it? What did you usually wear to school? Describe it. Were there any fads during your youth that you remember vividly? How old were you when you started dating? Do you remember your first date? Describe the circumstances. Name a good friend that you have known for the longest period of time? How many years have you been friends? Has there ever been anyone in your life that you would consider to me your kindred spirit or soul mate? If so, who were they and why did you feel a special bond to them? How did you meet the person that you would later marry? Describe them? Do you remember where you went on the first date with your spouse? How long did you know them before you got married? Describe your wedding proposal. When and where did you get married? Describe your wedding ceremony. Who was there? Did you have a honeymoon? If so, where did you go? How would you describe your spouse? What do (did) you admire most about them? How long have you been married (or were you married)? What wise advice would you give to a grandchild on their wedding day? How did you find out that you were going to be a parent for the first time? How many children did you have all together? What were their names, birthdates and birthplaces? Do you remember anything that your children did when they were small that really amazed you? What is one of the most unusual things that one of your children did regularly when they were small? What was the funniest thing you can remember that one of your children said or did? If you had it to do all over again, would you change the way you raised your family? How? What did you find most difficult about raising children? What did you find most rewarding about being a parent? Did you spoil any of your children? How? Were you a strict or lenient parent? Did you find that you had to treat each of your children differently? If so, why? How did you first hear that you were a grandparent and how did you feel about it? What advice do you have for your children and grandchildren? As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? What was your first job? What kinds of jobs have you had? How did you decide on your career? Did you make enough money to live comfortably? How long did you have to work each day at your job? How old were you when you retired? What were the hardest choices that you ever had to make? Do you feel like you made the right choices? Who was the person that had the most positive influence on your life? Who were they and what did they do? Is there a person that really changed the course of your life by something that they did? Who were they and what did they do? Do you remember someone saying something to you that had a big impact on how you lived your life? What was it? How would you describe yourself politically? Are you Conservative or Liberal and why? What wars have been fought during your lifetime? How did you feel about them? If you served in the military, when and where did you serve and what were your duties? If you served in the military, were you ever injured in the line of duty? What were the circumstances and what were your injuries? What U.S. President have you admired the most and why? As you see it, what are the biggest problems that face our nation and how do you think they could be solved? How tall are you? What color was your hair as a young child and then as an adult? What color are your eyes? Where have you lived as an adult? List the places and the years that you lived there. Why are you living where you are today? Do you wish you lived somewhere else (If so, where would it be)? Describe your general health. What major illnesses or health problems do you remember having? Do you have any health problems that are considered hereditary in nature? If so, what are they? What do you do regularly for exercise? Do you have any bad habits now or in the past? What were they? Have you ever been the victim of a crime? What happened? Have you ever been in a serious accident? Has anyone ever saved your life? Describe. Have you ever saved anyone else's life? Describe. Have you ever been hospitalized? If so, what for? Have you ever had surgery? If so, what for? If you could change something about yourself, what would it be? Have you ever had an experience that you would consider to be super-natural or psychic? Did you ever know something was going to happen before it actually did? What was it? What do you usually dream about? What church, if any, do you attend regularly? Describe your religious beliefs. Do you believe in an after life? What was the most stressful experience that you ever lived through? What helped you get through it? What is the scariest thing that has ever happened to you personally? What kinds of musical instrument(s) have you learned to play? Would you consider yourself creative? What things have you made that others have enjoyed? How would you describe your sense of humor? What is the funniest practical joke you ever played on anyone? What activities have you especially enjoyed as an adult? What are your hobbies? What did you like to do when you were not working? What is the most amazing thing that has ever happened to you? What is the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to you? Have you ever met any famous people? Describe what happened. What organizations and groups have you belonged to? Have you ever won any special awards or prizes as an adult? What were they for? Describe a time and place when you remember feeling truly at peace and happy to be alive. Where were you and what were you doing? What is the most beautiful place you have ever visited and what was it like? What is the longest trip that you have ever gone on? Where did you go? What has been your favorite vacation? Where did you go and why was it special? What was the favorite place you ever visited and what was it like? What pets have you had? Do you have a favorite story about a pet? What is it? Is there anything you have always wanted to do, but haven't? What is your favorite style of music? What is your favorite musical instrument? Who is your favorite musical group? What is your favorite song? Who is your favorite singer? Who is your favorite movie star? What is your favorite movie? Who is your favorite artist? What is your favorite painting? Who is your favorite poet? What is your favorite poem? What is your favorite TV program? Who is your favorite author? What is your favorite book? What is your favorite season? What is your favorite tree? What is your favorite flower? What is your favorite holiday? What is your favorite color? What is your favorite sport? Who is your favorite athlete? What is your favorite animal? What is your favorite meal? What is your favorite fruit? What is your favorite vegetable? What is your favorite candy? What is your favorite cookie? What is your favorite drink? What is your favorite restaurant? What is your favorite flavor of ice cream? What is your favorite board game? What is your favorite card game?

and finally you might ask

IF YOU HAD TO PICK A LABEL FOR YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS (your spouse, children, parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, aunts & uncles, cousins), WHO BEST FITS THE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTIONS? The best cook; The hardest-worker; the quietest; the best memory; the best gardener; the funniest; the best-looking; the animal lover; the most politically-active; the most mischievous; the calmest; the most athletic; the most intelligent; the most educated; the best career; the most creative; the wildest lifestyle; the most sociable; the biggest tease; the best housekeeper; the most reclusive; the most colorful; the most relaxed; the most frugal; the most generous; the tallest; the shortest; the best story-teller.

Although I had long 'interviews' with my grandmother and other relations it wasn't until after the death of both grandparents that I uncovered the 'scandal' of grandmother's pre-marital pregnancy and delivery of a daughter. In fact, I didn't even know the child had existed as she died at about the age of two. A lifetime cannot really be related in a few minutes of with answers to a few questions. These are only suggestions to help you ferret out the information that will help you find your family roots, and more importantly understand the people who made you who you are today.

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Are you often amazed how professional disc jocks spin their disks and produce sounds with beats that makes the club people hit the dance floor and groove to their sounds? Well, with a knack for creating professional-sounding beats and a computer, you can become a DJ and make your own techno music without using expensive software programs or needing a band.

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How to Make Your Own Techno Music With the Best Techno Music Software

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How Do I Download Music to My Mp3 Player?

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After you have the files properly formatted on your hard drive, you can remove the drive from your mp3 player and plug it into a "usb" port on your computer. You then go to your hard drive, find the files you copied, making sure they are in the proper format,and then move them to the drive of your Mp3 player.

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OK lets say you want to download music directly from the internet. You need to see if any special software is required to assist in the downloading process. Normally you wont need any. You just hook up your device to a "usb" port, go to your settings and look for "usb mode" or connect. With some devices you wont need to do anything, because they will automatically be detected as a removable hard drive.

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Next you will need to find out where the files will be stored. Depending on which music download vendor you choose, some will allow you to buy one track at a time, if this is the case you can download one track and see where on your device the file was stored, and then proceed to buy further tracks and choose the same location to store them. If not, the files can be stored in different locations and the device will find them once you disconnect from the port.

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One of America's well-known country bands is the band from Columbus, Ohio which calls itself the Rascal Flatts. The band is made up of just three members Gary, Jay and Joe. On lead vocals there is Gary LeVox, on bass guitar, keyboards and vocals is his cousin Jay DeMarcus and on lead guitar and vocals there is Joe Don Rooney.

The band was formed by the two cousins who come from a musical family in Ohio, Columbus. Before the band was formed Jay DeMarcus had moved out of Ohio to look for better opportunities in Nashville where he got his first record deal to be part of a Christian group. This was in 1992 and after five more years he finally convinced his cousin to quit his current job and enter the music industry.

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DeMarcus met guitarist Joe Don Rooney when joined Chely Wright's band. Soon after this meeting DeMarcus along with his cousin Gary LeVox started playing at a local pub and one day when their guitarist didn't show up for work they invited Joe Don Rooney, this is where it all began.

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The three decided to name the band Rascal Flatts as it was the name of a famous Oklahoma landmark where they had begun performing for the first time. In 1999, the bad were signed by Lyric Street Record and they are still affiliated with the same record company.

The Rascal Flatts first album was released in 2000 called Rascal Flatts and one of the singles made it to the #1 on the Country Billboard charts. The band's second album Melt which was released in 2002 enjoyed equal success and just like the first album, the second one also went on to becoming a Multi-Platinum album.

The band's latest album which was released in the year 2009 was their seventh album and the album was named Unstoppable. The album like most of the other albums the band released was a major success and sold over a million copies.

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Gospel Music

Music is an artistic expression of the mind and feelings of the people who create it. An expression of emotional zeal and praise, as it is being considered nowadays, gospel music is now a successful branch of music to some extent.

It is believed that gospel music refers to the religious music created by the African-American churches during the 1930s. Similarly, it also refers to both this black gospel music as well as pious music composed and sung by white southern Christian artists. Neither of these two styles has been clearly defined; hence, sometimes an artist from one branch of gospel music sings the songs of the other branch.

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The separation between black and white American churches has always kept the two branches of gospel music apart. And though the divisions have narrowed in the past 50 years, black gospel and southern or white gospel still have their own distinctions.

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During the development of gospel music in the 1930s, Thomas Dorsey created songs combining shouts of praise and emotional fervor with his own contemporary style; hence, he was named the Father of Contemporary Gospel, and the 30s were called the Dorsey Era. During that time, Dorsey?s songs were mostly unwelcome in some U.S. churches.

To date, there are composers and performers of gospel music all over the world.

Gospel music is ever-changing and has evolved over several years. Gospel ensembles and quartets came to life in the 40s while piano or organs were added during the 50s. Gospel music also abounds with noted artists and performers like Mahalia Jackson, The Golden Gate Quartet, Clara Ward, Jordanaires, Al Green, Solomon Burke, The Staple Singers of Chicago, Albertina Walker, Yolanda Adams, and others.

If you are fond of gospel music, there are many record stores and distributors that offer CDs and tapes of gospel music. DVDs of gospel music concerts or performances are also available. If you?re longing for gospel music mp3s, the web has much to offer. There are sites that offer these mp3s as free downloads and streaming while some offer packages for a sum. In case you?re new to gospel music and want to further your learning, many magazines, journals, and online sites are offering information on artists and performers and on the history of gospel music.

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How to Make a Bamboo Flute For Homemade Music

Want to know how to make a bamboo flute for your own homemade music? Flute making with bamboo can be really simple, as most of the work is done for you by way of the natural hollows that are grown into the bamboo. However, there's just a little bit of math involved in figuring out how to make a flute the right length for the fundamental note (the lowest not that you can play, with all fingers covering every hole), and for how to make flute finger-hole placements precise, as well as the embouchure (blowing edge hole). The one, simple, all-important mathematical formula to do the job, is really very easy to understand. Allow me to show you...

To understand how to make a bamboo flute, you'll need to be aware of two basic numbers in flute making in order to make perfect homemade music. The numbers to know for how to make a flute with perfect tuning are; the linear measurement for how far sound travels per second, and; the number of Hertz (the vibratory frequency) of any particular notes you will have the flute play. But to correctly gage the sound, first we need to know how to make flute embouchures. For this example, we'll use a transverse (or "side-blown") flute. It's very simple - make the hole for this be about half the width of the bore diameter, and have the hole's center point be situated at one bore diameter's distance from the inside of the closed end. Bevel one edge on the inside at an acute angle for the best "airstream splitting edge".

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Okay, now for the numbers and how to use them in making our bamboo flute, and superb homemade music. The distance sound travels per second, at sea level, and at about 70 degrees F (or 21 degrees C), is 13526.5 inches (or 34357.31 centimeters). Now you take the frequency number of the note, which for this example we'll say the fundamental note will be "A", which would be 440, and divide the previous number by this one. What you will get is the length of one wavelength for this note, in this case 30.74 inches, or 70.08 centimeters.

How to Make a Bamboo Flute For Homemade Music

How to make a flute body the correct length for this is now to divide this measurement by two, which would make it about 15 3/8 inches, or 35.04 centimeters. You'll find that due to other factors in flute making, such as bore diameter and flute body wall thickness, you may need to shorten this a little bit more to get the note precisely - do this a little at a time. Use this same formula to find out how to make flute finger-hole placements along the length according to the notes you wish them to play, and there you have it!

How to Make a Bamboo Flute For Homemade Music

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