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    Christine Urban and Linda Frontera
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    Christine Urban and Linda Frontera
    No Facilitator
    November 7, 2005 StoryKit

    • college
    • Dancing
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • illness
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • schoolyard games
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    Albert Lozano and Catalina Lozano
    01:16:24
    Albert Lozano and Catalina Lozano
    Frank Kingman
    June 20, 2010 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Albert H. Lozano, 84, talks with his daughter Catalina Lozano, 58, about growing up in Mexico, his immigration to the US, his family and his varied careers.

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • apprenticeships
    • Bullfighting
    • Chihuahua, Mexico
    • Ciúdad Juárez, México
    • Cliff House Restaurant, San Francisco
    • college
    • community worthies
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • disc jockeys
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family characters
    • family expressions
    • family favorite songs and poems
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    Francis J. Smaka and Beth Smaka
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    Francis J. Smaka and Beth Smaka
    Daniel Littlewood
    July 24, 2007 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Frank Smaka tells his daughter Beth about leaving Poland to come to America as a kid, about his family’s history, adjusting to life in America, and how he met Beth’s mother.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • blind date
    • Coal mine
    • college
    • Ellis Island
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • family trips and excursions
    • first impression of America
    • Germans
    • grandson
    • illness
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Pennsylvania
    SFB000369
    Francis Wong and Mary Ann Wong
    01:22:17
    Francis Wong and Mary Ann Wong
    Alex Lyon
    June 18, 2009 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Francis Wong (72) talks to his wife Mary Ann Wong (62) about his life, his accomplishments and the things he is most proudest of.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • apprenticeships
    • birth of first child
    • Childhood Games
    • Christian
    • college
    • community worthies
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Cruises
    • Don Graham
    • family heroes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • family trips and excursions
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    William Evers and Peter Emblad
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    William Evers and Peter Emblad
    Liam Pierce
    March 10, 2011 San Francisco StoryBooth

    William D. Evers (83) by Peter Emblad (43) on W.’s family history. W. talks about his parents and grandparents’ immigration to the U.S. from Germany, and their rise in prominence in San Francisco

    • Caspar Malchiar Balthazar, Dhormann, Sepha, Inez, Harold, Otto, Ernest, Jenny, Caroline Livermore, Spekbacher
    • college
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family characters
    • family expressions
    • family heroes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Great Depression stories
    • Hammond, Germany, Calistoga, Marin County, Ross, San Francisco,
    • historical events/people
    • illness
    • Influential People
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    Susan  Moinester, Arielle Moinester, and Margot Moinester
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    Susan Moinester, Arielle Moinester, and Margot Moinester
    Eloise Melzer
    July 21, 2010 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Margot Moinester, 22, and Arielle Moinester, 30, ask their mother, Susan Moinester, 56, about her parents who survived the Holocaust.

    • 1950s
    • 1970s
    • Abe Diamond
    • adaptations
    • Admiration
    • American holidays
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • aphorisms
    • Appearance
    • Appreciation
    • Bad memories
    • birth of first child
    • Brooklyn, NY
    • celebrating heritage
    • close-knit families
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    Jean Garcia and Kenneth Garcia
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    Jean Garcia and Kenneth Garcia
    pkochhar
    February 27, 2006 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    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.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family expressions
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • favorite hangouts and haunts
    • historical events/people
    • illness
    • magical beliefs and practices
    • memories of former times
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    Marie Hinton and Donna Gershten
    40:20
    Marie Hinton and Donna Gershten
    whenry-lester
    September 9, 2009 MobileBooth West (MBY)

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

    • Charleston
    • Church
    • college
    • Confederate
    • Confederate soldier
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Dancing
    • Epilepsy
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • House
    • illness
    • Kitchen
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    Eugene  Hutchens and Dale Hutchens
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    Eugene Hutchens and Dale Hutchens
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    January 9, 2010 Atlanta StoryBooth

    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

    • Alzheimers
    • amateur radio
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Church
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family characters
    • family heroes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Great Depression stories
    • Howard College
    • illness
    • Influential People
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
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    Robert Tainsh and Cynthia Tainsh
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    Robert Tainsh and Cynthia Tainsh
    Kate Brown
    February 25, 2009 Door-to-Door Kit C

    Cynthia Tainsh (50) talks with her husband, Robert Tainsh (49), about moving to Florida from New England and their experiences having twins and then triplets.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • anesthesiology
    • birth of first child
    • child delivery
    • cleft palette
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family doctor stories
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Florida Hospital
    • Furniture
    • Golden Retriever
    • Harvard
    • illness
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    James “Jim” Anderson and Alice Ferris
    40:20
    James “Jim” Anderson and Alice Ferris
    Anna Walters
    January 26, 2010 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Alice Ferris interviews her friend, Jim Anderson about Jim’s grandmother, “Grandma Daisy” and the influence she has had on his life.

    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family characters
    • family expressions
    • family heroes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Flagstaff, Arizona
    • illness
    • Indiana
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Money
    • personal experiences

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