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    Charlene Robinson and Sonja Scott Woods
    49:38
    Charlene Robinson and Sonja Scott Woods
    Becky Homann
    January 12, 2008 Milwaukee Public Library

    Charlene Robinson and her niece, Sonja Scott Woods discuss their family history.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • memories of growing up
    • Mother’s Day
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • Slave Narratives recordings
    • social beliefs and practices
    • Spouse
    MBY006073
    Amelia Vara, Mary  Hernandez, and Dawn Leal
    38:01
    Amelia Vara, Mary Hernandez, and Dawn Leal
    Alejandro De La Cruz
    December 18, 2009 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Amelia Alice Vara (87) talks with daughter Mary Hernandez (65) and granddaughter Dawn Leal (37) about her service to her community.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • apprenticeships
    • Catholic Daughters
    • community worthies
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Denver Harbor Civic Club
    • Denver Harbor Garden Club
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Hidalgo Park
    • illness
    MBX004737
    Edith Johnson and Jaimie Johnson
    01:18:24
    Edith Johnson and Jaimie Johnson
    Nina Porzucki
    December 20, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Edith E. Johson, 80, is interviewed by her granddaughter, Jaimie Johnson, 26.

    • 500 Club
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • army photographer
    • birth of first child
    • Boot Lake
    • Bridge Club
    • card parties
    • Childhood Games
    • Christmas code
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Dancing
    • Davenport, IA
    • dying
    • economic beliefs and practices
    MBY006523
    Maria Leyba and Angélica  Turrieta
    40:45
    Maria Leyba and Angélica Turrieta
    Alejandro De La Cruz
    May 20, 2010 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Maria L. Leyba (60) talks with her daughter Angélica Turrieta (33) about her childhood life in a prison, growing up in New Mexico and the death of her brother Ramón.

    • Albino
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • apache
    • Appearance
    • Ascension, Chihuahua
    • Barelas, NM
    • Celestino Barrola
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family heroes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • historical events/people
    • Influential People
    MBY006293
    Maria Meza-Ayala and Maribel Meza
    36:58
    Maria Meza-Ayala and Maribel Meza
    Alejandro De La Cruz
    March 10, 2010 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Maria Meza-Ayala (89) habla con su hija Maribel Meza (25) de su vida en Mexico. [Maria Meza-Ayala (89) talks with her daughter Maribel Meza (25) about her life in Mexico.]

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • conjuring
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • first impression of America
    • historical events/people
    • luck and fate
    • magical beliefs and practices
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    MBY006712
    Susan  Moinester, Arielle Moinester, and Margot Moinester
    45:00
    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
    MBX006503
    Larnell Bates and Lynette Bates
    41:34
    Larnell Bates and Lynette Bates
    Jeremy Helton
    March 28, 2010 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Lynette D. Bates (47) talks with her brother Larnell Bates, Jr. (51) about family, parenting and good teachers.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Angela
    • Appearance
    • Arthur McCastle
    • Aunt Snowball
    • birth of first child
    • breast cancer
    • Brianna
    • Brother Martin
    • Chicago
    • Coach Markham
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • discipline
    • Eleanor McMain
    • family naming and nicknames
    MBY007811
    Candice Romanow and Daniel Littlewood
    34:13
    Candice Romanow and Daniel Littlewood
    ecohen
    May 7, 2011 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Candice Romanow (64) tells facilitator Daniel Littlewood (32) about being in San Francisco in the 1960s, living alone in the woods, and her travels in Cambodia.

    • acupuncture
    • Americans in Cambodia
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • Astrology
    • Big Sur, California
    • Cambodia
    • family naming and nicknames
    • gestalt therapy
    • human potential movement
    • Kabbalah
    • living by the ocean
    • living in the woods
    • living on the coast
    • memories of former times
    MBX006278
    Pedro de Pool and Ivette De Pool
    38:12
    Pedro de Pool and Ivette De Pool
    Lilly Sullivan
    January 25, 2010 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Ivette de Pool (37) interviews father Pedro de Pool (64) about family heritage and about his experience as an actor and announcer in Cuba and in the U.S.

    • Amsterdam
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • announcer
    • Appearance
    • apprenticeships
    • baritone
    • birth of first child
    • Black
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Commercial
    • Communism
    • communismo
    • Cuba
    • Curacao
    • de Pool
    ATL000389
    Sybil Brown and Joseph Brown
    41:12
    Sybil Brown and Joseph Brown
    aknight
    July 15, 2010 Atlanta StoryBooth

    Joseph Brown, 29, talks to his mother Sybil Brown, 67, about her life growing up in rural Georgia, her education in Athens, GA., and her move to and life in Atlanta, GA.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • birth of first child
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • Edison, GA
    • ESOL teacher
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    MBY001166
    Jean Garcia and Kenneth Garcia
    00:00
    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
    wtc000266
    Viola Garcia Garza, Maria Solone Peck, Diana “Didi” Garza, and Alma Coplen
    00:00
    Viola Garcia Garza, Maria Solone Peck, Diana “Didi” Garza, and Alma Coplen
    cbancroft
    November 26, 2005 World Trade Center Booth

    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.

    • Appearance
    • Cattle ranching
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • dress-ups
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family heroes
    • family in-jokes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • luck and fate
    • memories of growing up
    • Mexican-American
    MBX006244
    Luz Gomez and David Carter
    38:14
    Luz Gomez and David Carter
    Lilly Sullivan
    January 17, 2010 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    David Carter (38) interviews spouse Luz Gomez (35) about her father, Carlos Ignacio Gomez Arriola, who died three years ago.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • Basque
    • Brazil
    • CAL
    • carpet-laying business
    • carpets
    • Club
    • college
    • Colombian
    • crossing self
    • Cuban
    • diesel parts
    • European
    • export
    MBY005608
    Ara Arakelian and Lisa Forsberg
    42:17
    Ara Arakelian and Lisa Forsberg
    cscott
    June 23, 2009 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Ara Arakelian (79) is interviewed by his daughter Lisa Forsberg (29). Ara shares his experiences as a child and as a soldier in the Korean War where he won a bronze medal of valor.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • Armenian language
    • bazookas
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • emergency plane landing
    • Explosions
    • family heroes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • flame throwers
    • flying planes
    • Influential People
    • killing enemy soldiers
    MBY006305
    Barbara Martinez and Renee Martinez
    37:26
    Barbara Martinez and Renee Martinez
    Alejandro De La Cruz
    March 12, 2010 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Barbara D. Martinez (76) talks with her daughter Renee Martinez (49) about her life.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • birth of first child
    • college
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family expressions
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Lewistown
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • multicultural
    MBX004119
    Georgie Walker and Sonia  Walker
    01:08:20
    Georgie Walker and Sonia Walker
    Chaela Herridge-Meyer
    July 26, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Georgie talks with her daughter Sonia Walker about growing up in Buffalo, the illnesses Georgia has suffered and the strength and perseverance they have learned as family.

    • 1943
    • Appearance
    • birth of first child
    • Buffalo, NY
    • Childhood Games
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Fort Benning, GA
    • gall bladder
    • heart trouble
    • historical events/people
    • Lutheran
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • political beliefs and practices
    ATL000106
    Anna Woo and Ann Lombardi
    01:17:38
    Anna Woo and Ann Lombardi
    aknight
    December 5, 2009 Atlanta StoryBooth

    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.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • apprenticeships
    • Atlanta Korean Community
    • Dry cleaners
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family heroes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • first impression of America
    • Korea
    • Korean
    • Korean American
    • Lockheed Martin

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