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I never how much my grandfather’s identity as an immigrant affected his whole life. On December 27th 2019 in Sanibel Island, Florida, my grandpa Abel Friedman (83) and I discussed his childhood immigrating from Poland to the US. Abel talked...

What was life like a 13-year-old the 1930s?

We came to have many photo albums from my grandmother, Lotte Kramer, and her mother, Ella Faller, from the 1910s-1940s. Jean Kramer, my mom, looks at the album and narrates who the people are and family history, including time in...

My father, Carl Carroll, talks about what life was like growing up on a farm with his grandparents in the 1930s near Brownsburg Virginia.

Adoption and College

Grandma’s life growing up in the Midwest in a farming family in the early 1900’s

Bill Warren talks about how lucky he was to grow up near his grandparents on their farm in Texas in the 1930s.

An interview over the life of my grandmother

This interview contains a conversation between 14 year old and his 91 year old grandfather. We discuss family values, traditions, religion, growing up in different times, and his life.

Vaughn talks fondly about his youth, family, love of basketball, and his first love.

The son of a coal miner in Pennsylvania tells about life in the 1930s. Living off one ton of coal a year, wearing patched up socks, and helping dad with collecting coal in buckets.

Recorded on March 28, 2001 by HB Smith @76 yrs old, exactly 10 yrs to the day before his passing.

My grandmother recounts traveling on the train with her sister by themselves when they were 8 and 9-years-old in the late 1930s; going to college and living in Alberta, Canada; and working at an advertising agency in the 1950s in...

Dad’s life growing up in Southern Minnesota, Being drafted into the military police, his young married life and his growth in the Lutheran faith.

An interview with Mary Drewes on her mother’s life as a woman, wife, and mother in the 1930s.

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

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

Betty Jo tells us about her childhood.

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

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

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

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....

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

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

“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...