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I wanted to learn about my grandpa and what it was like to grow up in the 1940s and 1950s. He also told me about what my mother was like when she was a little girl. He also talked about...

This interview is with my grandmother's neighbor about his journey from Canada to the United States and his experiences living here.

Audrey talks about family, childhood, and college

A chat about childhood in the 40s

My Dad talks about growing up in Wyoming and in the San Fernando Valley, when it was still ranches and orchards. He talks about his older family members, his friends, and his memory of the day his wife Susi was...

A grandson recounting memories with his grandmother, from childhood, to high school, to happy moments.

Grandma Ella discusses pregnancy and giving birth in the 1940s.

Heritage is a great thing to hold on to and be proud of. At times we stray away from our heritage when going about our lives, but it is important to always remember where you came from, and to pass...

Bennett B. Interviews his Pop Pop from Italy. The interview starts off with Pop pops life in Italy and slowly makes its way to present day. The story goes all the back to 1940 up to thanksgiving day 2019. The...

Bonnie talks about her childhood, her kids & parenting, her thoughts on life & afterlife, and passes on some wisdom for future generations!

Betty Jo tells us about her childhood.

This Nurse, Wife, Mother, and Grandmother talks about her childhood in the Philippines and her path to the US.

Steve interviews Mom and Dad, aka Carl and Martha, about their teenage years, dating, meeting each other, proposing, early life together and having their two wonderful children.

Bill Chiappetta was able to travel the world, see the place where his family was from, and while doing these things he was serving our country. My name is Grace Chiappetta-Uberti, I am 14 years old, and I interviewed my...

We came to have many photo albums from my grandmother, Lotte Kramer, and her mother, Ella Faller, from the 1910s-1940s. Jean Kramer, my mom, looks at the album and narrates who the people are and family history, including time in...

I never how much my grandfather’s identity as an immigrant affected his whole life. On December 27th 2019 in Sanibel Island, Florida, my grandpa Abel Friedman (83) and I discussed his childhood immigrating from Poland to the US. Abel talked...

Doris Mehlisch Lemker talks about farm chores, school and 6 on 6 girls basketball in the 30’s and 40’s.

Grandma and Warren and Heather talking in the hospital.

We spoke about Ginette’s time in France, her travel to America, and important people in her life.

Ray Campeau recalls the Serbian celebration of Mesopust, the coming of the interstate, his family's heritage, and the round-the-clock hardworking miners in Butte.

Growing up in Irvington, NJ 1950

This conversation between Sonya(20) and her dad, Sylvain(61), explores broadcast news from the perspective of someone who works behind the camera. Sylvain has worked for CBC for almost four decades and details how he found himself doing this work, the...

My father's recollection of his childhood in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1940's and 1950's.

My grandmother recounts traveling on the train with her sister by themselves when they were 8 and 9-years-old in the late 1930s; going to college and living in Alberta, Canada; and working at an advertising agency in the 1950s in...

In this interview, conducted on November 26, 2018 in Oxford, Mississippi, Addison Hunt (13) interviews her great grandmother Pebble Ewing (80) about life in the South during segregated and integrated times. Mrs. Ewing shares stories of going to segregated schools,...