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Violet Hittle, 97, is interviewed by her granddaughter, Doreen Myers,50.

A grandmother tells her granddaughter about growing up and her married life.

son interivews his mom about how she single-handedly raised her three sons once her husband got very ill. until then she’d always been dependent on her husband. very nice interivew.


Three sisters interviewed by daughter/niece about growing up on a cattle ranch in south Texas as a Mexican-American family. Stories about their university educations, traditions, pranks, and life on the ranch.

Dan Shellenbarger interviews his mother, Sue, about her activist work.


Roz interviews her parents for their 50th wedding anniversary and tells them things the family has said about them.


Mary talks to her son Bruce about her life’s purpose to be a mother and to spread the message of honoring the divine feminine.

Jesse Lomelí (66) and his sister Marta Lomelí (57) talk about when their family came to the United States from Mexico, the cultural difference at home and at school.

Evan and Rosina Interview Edward White to know a little bit more about his background

Pauline Curry (64) is interviewed by her daughter, Christine Hemmings (40) about her lifetime love of the Dolly Copp campground.

Shirley Harrison and her friend BLAH BLAH talk about Shirley’s several jobs and several names.

Facilitator Jackie Sojico, 23, interviews Barbara Altman, 67, about her father, Harold Alton Corbin.

Dale Hutchens, 53, interviews his father Eugune Hutchens, 80, about his life, his abiding interest in radio and his experiences growing up in a poor, sharecropping family

Ann Lombardi, 59, interviews her friend Anna Woo, 42, about her family’s immigration to the United States and her life here since that day in April 1976.

Thomas tells daughter about meeting her mother and about how he came to Chicago from Ireland.

Lee Ann Marona (45) talks with her father, Don Wilson (72) about his childhood, religious involvement, time spent in the Navy, and his work experiences.

Nicole Di Rocca asks her parents about their recent family trip to Cuba and her parents’ immigration from Cuba over 40 years ago.

James Desjardin, 83, is interviewed by his wife, Gertrude Desjardin, 77, about his life.

John Edward Balthrop, 91, talks to his daughter Sheila Michel, 52, about his military career, his wife, and his medical career.

The Shea siblings (Kathy Shea (52), Thomas Shea (54), and Frank Shea (48)) and Kathy’s husband Eric Munson (49) come together to talk about the two people they lost on 9/11/01, Danny Shea and Joe Shea.

Marie tells her daughter, Donna, stories of her childhood and family in North Carolina.

Dan interviews his mother Janet about her childhood, immigrating to the United States from Italy and settling in Chicago.