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In this interview conducted in November 2023 in San Francisco, California, Danielle Song (14) interviews her mom Cathy Song (51) about their family history and childhood. They discuss Cathy’s childhood in Qingdao, China and the journey it took to get...

In this Interview conducted on November 26th 2023 in Vestavia Hills Alabama. Eighteen year old Brodie Vicinanzo and his eighty eight year old Great Aunt Rosemary Reid discuss what life was like growing up through ww2 and losing loved ones....

Interview with my mom about her life growing up, her values now and her relationship with her father (my grandfather) that I’ve never gotten to meet.

Bill Warren talks about how lucky he was to grow up near his grandparents on their farm in Texas in the 1930s.

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...

Ai Choo Kong (“Lovely Pearl”), age 84, interviewed by her daughter, Lin Min Kong (“Bright Forrest”), age 52, about her life growing up in Malaysia, including enduring the Japanese occupation, emigrating to the US, and living in rural North Carolina....

Serena and her friend Cathy are talking about studying abroad. What problems does she concern and how she will face it? What expectations do she have?

Kaiwen 28. I was asking him about how digital and emotional literacy has affected him.

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

Dorothy growing up in Scranton, meeting dad, moving to Europe.

Marion talks about her life, especially her younger years. A special story about Christmas, stories she would tell me as a kid (about her grandma). Her experiences as a home away from home for West Point Cadets. Grandma was the...

Asking dad about his university and also his childhood. Also heard some of grandpa and grandma’s stories.

Bob Resnick (87) talked with his daughter-in-law Audrey Resnick (61) about his childhood memories in Los Angeles, his courtship and marriage to Renee, and his experiences in the Navy Reserve, stationed in Hawaii (while Hawaii was still a territory).

A interview of my father and I

This interview contains a conversation between 14 year old and his 91 year old grandfather. We discuss family values, traditions, religion, growing up in different times, and his life.

My mother, Penny Lam DeFreitas, talks about immigrating from Hong Kong to America, and what growing up in San Francisco was like in the brand new environment she was thrown in.

Hong talks about some of her life experiences, difficult challenges, and regrets.

An interview with Mary Drewes on her mother’s life as a woman, wife, and mother in the 1930s.

Mr. Zhou talked about his immigration to China and his experience as a Chinese American.

Dad’s life growing up in Southern Minnesota, Being drafted into the military police, his young married life and his growth in the Lutheran faith.

Regina and I have a conversation about her coming to America from China and how that affected her education and social life.

An interview with Ryan and Bill about pop culture in China.

Five questions about what has been happened in your childhood.

I discuss with my dad his upbringing in Shanghai, China during the Cultural Revolution and his first experiences in America as a first-generation immigrant and one of the first Chinese immigrants that immigrated into the US after the reopening of...

Betty Jo tells us about her childhood.