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This is my first interview of my grandfather, Forrest L. Smith, born September 30th, 1929 in Atlanta, GA. He discusses growing up in the Druid Hills neighborhood and his happiest and saddest moments.

Lucretia McCulley (Richmond, VA) interviewed her mother, Evelyn Loven McCulley Ochs (age 83) on October 2, 2015, about her parents running a boarding house and tourist home in the 1920s and 1930s in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, a small mountain...

Michael (54) asks his father Ted Heaton (86) about some activities of his youth in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NYC. Picking coal, vendors and street games

Growing up in the 1930-40s. Roller skating and family stories.

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

Louis Guarinello talks about his life from his childhood in the 1930s, his time in the Navy, and what it was like to live in New York in a recent immigrant Italian family.

A Nana tells her grandson what it was like growing up in the country and city during the Second World War, being Black in segregated America, and other challenges she faced later in life.

Amanda Sauvie (44) sits down to interview her grandparents in McKinney Texas. Max (91) and Patsy Carpenter (89) share stories of their Southern childhoods in the 1930’s and recall memories of their parents. Patsy recalls her childhood in Warren, Arkansas...

A mother and daughter discuss the legacy of mental illness that is woven throughout their family’s past, present, and future.

A chat about childhood in the 40s

Betty Jo tells us about her childhood.

A variety of topics, including community, socialization, influential relationships, and family history.

Leonard Ampe shares childhood memories from small town central Wisconsin in the 1930s

Grandma (Ramona) shared what life was like growing up in the 1930's and raising her 5 children in the 1960's & 70's.

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...

Audrey talks about family, childhood, and college

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

Dante Voss interviews Gerrald Voss about growing up on the farm and transitioning into a war veteran.

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

“After every air raid we would have to count heads to make sure everyone was okay”. On January 1, 2019, 14 year-old Taylor Huie interviewed her grandmother, Sylvia Huie, about her experience escaping the Japanese-Chinese War in the 1930s when...

Talking family and world history with my 91-year-old grandmother who lives in Needham, Mass., and my husband Ashkon.

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...

Interview with 92 year old Susan Finney by her 17 year old granddaughter Nicole Finney. Susan Finney is second-generation Sicilian-American.

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....

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...