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1.
What is your full name, birth date, birthplace?
2.
What was your or your spouse's maiden name?
3.
What is your spouse's full name, birth date,
birthplace?
4.
What are your children's full names, birthplaces and
birthdates?
5.
Where did all of the above graduate High School and
in what years?
6.
Where did all of the above graduate College and in
what years?
7.
What career did/does all of the above work in?
8.
If any of the above were divorced, in what year and
where?
9.
What military experience did any of the above have?
10.
What information from the above questions can you
answer about your siblings?
11.
Do you know why you, your spouse, siblings, or
children were given the names they have?
12.
What do you remember about your childhood?
13.
Where did you, your spouse or children go to
Elementary School and Junior High?
14.
Where and when were your parents, grandparents, and
great-grandparents born?
15.
Did your parents tell you how they met? How?
16.
Do you remember all of your grandparents or any of
your great-grandparents?
17.
Do you recall any stories about them or that they
told you?
18.
What did they look like?
19.
Did any relatives (other than immediate family) live
with you?
20.
Do you remember who your neighbors were when you
were a child?
21.
Are there any items (stories, traditions or physical
items) that have been handed down through several
generations?
22.
Did your family have any traditions or celebrate any
holidays? What were those reunions like?
23.
When did you leave home? Where did you live?
24.
What occupations have you had? Did you have any
special training?
25.
How did you meet your spouse or significant other?
26.
When and where did you get married? Did you have a
honeymoon? Where?
27.
Do you have any stories about the birth of your
children, or stories about your birth?
28.
Do you know who in your family originally immigrated
to this country? Where did they come from? Why did
they leave their native country?
29.
Were there any diseases or medical conditions that
seemed to be prevalent throughout your family
history?
30.
What do you expect to achieve with your family's
historical research? If you don't know, that is
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