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Covering topics from family to teaching at a CPS school.

Brothers Steve Clem (68) and Mitch Clem (58) talk about their childhood, family genealogy, and Steve's career in radio broadcasting.

Nicholas Porath (30) interviews his grandmother Ruth Ann Ryan (76) about their family genealogy and history.

Dr. Rachel Sutz Pienta (49) sits down with her mother, Nora Sutz (71), to discuss their family history, to reminisce about their favorite family memories, and to remember family members who have passed away.

Marian Atkins (65) shares what she knows about her mother's life story with her daughter, Veronica Seymour (35). They discuss how she survived World War II as a child in Japan, what it was like for her to immigrate first...

Cynthia Hand [no age given] and her birth mother, Suzanne Asha Stone [no age given], share a conversation about finding one another, Cynthia's adoption, and their experiences getting to know each other after they were separated for over 40 years.

Kristen Rael Wakfield (40) and her father Anthony Rael (65) discuss their ancestor Mathias Montaño, a genízaro (captured indigenous person of New Mexico), occupying the same land he once lived on, and the research Kristen is doing to better understand...

Chiquitta Clemons-Howard (50) talks to her husband Lamar Howard (46) about when they first met, how they fell in love, and what they are most grateful for in life.

Sisters Christine Roberson (60) and Kathleen Masterson (64) reminisce about their childhood, share stories about their family, and remember their parents.

Henry Rutledge Laurens [no age given] and James E. Lockemy (72) talk about Henry's ancestors, John Laurens and Henry Laurens, Jr.

Spouses, Robin Reshard (56) and Lloyd Reshard (64), sit down for a conversation about how their early relationship unfolded, their similarities and differences, and what they have learned from one another.

Siblings Margaret Rodríguez Callahan [no age given] and Robert “Bo” Rodríguez [no age given] have a conversation about their great-grandmother, Rosa Bernal, who was captured and enslaved in Las Vegas, NM in 1860. They mourn her difficult life while also...

Jo Corona (34) interviews Melissa Espinoza-Smart (54) about her great, great grandmother, Maria Guadalupe Garcia Lucero and her journey learning more about her indigenous heritage.

New friends Drake LeBlanc [no age given] and Maaliyah Papillion [no age given] discuss their creative processes and the importance of sharing their cultural heritage through art.

Juliana Aragón Fatula (66) talks to her friend Tracy Harmon (59) about being a corn mother as well as what she’s learned about her ancestry through her genealogy work.

One Small Step conversation partners Keith Guernsey (71) and Laurel "Laurie" Schunk (80) take an hour to discuss their hobbies, the political evolutions, and their concerns for the future of our country.

This interview outlines the concept of perseverance of my family's ancestors coming to North America from Europe before the Revolutionary War.

Beata Turnquist (16) discusses the history of her own family and the events in history that they participated in with her grandmother Helen Turnquist (72).

Tyler Cross (35) asks his mother Patricia "Pat" Cross (74) about her life, family and previous jobs. Patricia shares stories about her childhood, her journey to Montana and past relationships.

One Small Step partners Lucy Frend (47) and Steve Harms (61) discuss their family histories, their upbringings, and politics.

Long-lost brothers, John "Douglas" Davila (57) and Peter Couture (62), sit down with Peter's wife, Wilma Norton (59), to share the story of how they found one another and connected as brothers after growing up as only children with different...

Carolyn Hyppolite (39) talks with her new friend and roommate, Kiplyn Primus (57), about their participation in the Jamestown to Jamestown Year of Return trip to Ghana.

Colleagues Thomas S. Tisdale (83) and Anne Mitchell (60) talk about South Carolina's history and their personal projects of tracing family genealogy.

Long time friends Estevan Rael-Galvez (54) and Edward "Eddie" Joseph Chacón-Lontín (68) share a conversation about Eddie's family heritage, his mother’s practice of silence in the interest of survival, and his experience understanding and embracing his mixed identity. The two...

Lyle Mouton (77) speaks to his friend John Broussard (87) about his childhood memories, his family, and his upbringing.