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Libby interviews her mother, Mary, about her life.

Woman talks about mixed feelings of getting in touch with biological family

Stephanie tells stories of her big and dramatic family.

daughter interviews her 80-yr-old dad about his childhood in Boyle Heights L.A., and his thoughts on the Japanese American internment, and on how his sense of justice has been an inspiration to her.

Mirta Mihovilovic (63) and her cousins Angelina Thomas (88) and Mark Thomas (59) talk about their family history and how they recently came into contact with one another.

Candice Romanow (64) tells facilitator Daniel Littlewood (32) about being in San Francisco in the 1960s, living alone in the woods, and her travels in Cambodia.

Lynette D. Bates (47) talks with her brother Larnell Bates, Jr. (51) about family, parenting and good teachers.

Mark Richards, 31, talks to his wife Sarah Richards, 30, about his birth in Colombia, his adoption, growing up in New Jersey, their meeting, marriage and new-born baby.

Richard interviews his mother Yvonne about growing up in New York City, her survival of various cancers, and her children.

Virginia talks to her son Charles about her experience in the work force

Heather Sher (40) interviews her grandmother, Rheba Sher (89) about growing up above the family bar in Baltimore, adopting two sons, and retiring at 85. Heather and Rheba now live together.

Amber DiPietra, 29, and Jessie Lorenz, 31, talk about their visual impairments, and how they navigate the world.

Alfonso Castillo Garcia (84) talks with his granddaughter Renee Sanchez (36) about his life.

Robert Kovacs (38) tells Facilitator Katie Brook (26) about his life as an ethnic Hungarian and having grown up in the US with strong cultural ties to Hungary and Romania.

David Goldberger (84) was interviewed by Paul VanDeCarr (41) to talk about his wife Helen Rotenberg Goldberger who passed away and suffers the Holocaust

Sisters Hinde Muya and Amina Osman are interviewed by McKenzie Wren. The pair discuss the path that brought them to the United States from a refugee camp in Somalia. Hinde shares her views about the differences between Somali Bantu culture...

Margaret Sturgill interviews her friend and coworker Dennis Horton (60) about his childhood diagnosis of polio and how it changed his life.

Linda Tirico (57) speaks with Erin Dickey, Facilitator, about the progress of her work life and her current unemployment. Her theme was to discuss who she is today.

Samantha interviews her dad about the custody battle that gave him, a gay man, custody of his daughter and also set a precedent for other gay parents in New York.

Genie Hargrove (55) talks with her friends Doug Keith (43) and Joe Windish (56) about her journey to becoming a Baptist minister and reconciling that with her identity as a lesbian and a woman.

Valerie Helbert, 38, shares childhood memories and stories about older relatives with her younger sister Edith Helbert, 36.

Jane Lowey interviews her friend, Dolores, about growing up in Dover, DE during segregation, her mother and father, the poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar, and her husband.

Susan (57) tells her friend Stormy (51) about growing up in a steel mill community and dealing with breast cancer.

Andre Walker (25) talks to Peter Wilson (68) about the genealogical research that has led him to learn a lot about his family history.

Janice Gutbrod (83) shares the story of adopting her daughter Linda, as well as how Linda was reunited with her birth mother, with her book club pal Becca Werginz (26).