These Web sites and books will help you make the most of your oral history interviews.
In this article:
Oral History Interview Question Lists
20 Questions for interviewing Relatives
Suggested Topics and Questions for Oral Histories
www.genealogy.com/00000030.html?cj=1&o_xid=0001029688&o_lid=0001029688&o_xt=1029688
Oral History Interviewing Advice
51 Birch Street
51birchstreet.com/index.php
Companion site to a family documentary based on the filmmaker's interviews with relatives and family friends.
Baylor University Oral History Workshop on the Web
www.baylor.edu/oral%5Fhistory/index.php?id=23560
Capturing the Past
www.byubroadcasting.org/capturingpast
Cyndi's List: Oral History and Interviews
www.cyndislist.com/oral.htm
How do I transcribe oral history recordings?
www.le.ac.uk/emoha/training/no15.pdf
Making Sense of Oral History
historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/oral
Linda Shopes' guide to begin working with oral history interviews as historical evidence.
Oral-History Interviewing Tips
www.familytreemagazine.com/articles/memoirs2.html
Packing for an Interview
www.familytreemagazine.com/articles/apr00/pack.html
Southern Oral History Program
sohp.org
Videotaping Hints
www.familytreemagazine.com/articles/apr00/taping.html
Books on Oral History Interviewing
Doing Oral History by Donald A. Ritchie (Oxford University Press)
How to Create a Video Family History: The Complete Guide to Interviewing and Taping Your Family's Stories & Memories by Rob Huberman (ComteQ Publishing)
Keeping Family Stories Alive: Discovering and Recording the Stories and Reflections of a Lifetime by Vera Rosenbluth (Hartley & Marks)
Listening For Our Past: A Lay Guide To African American Oral History Interviewing
by Hasker Nelson, Heritage Research Creations
The Oral History Manual by Sommer Barbara W. (AltaMira Press)
Recording Oral History, Second Edition: A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences by Valerie Raleigh Yow (AltaMira Press)
Touching Tomorrow: How to Interview Your Loved Ones to Capture a Lifetime of Memories on Video or Audio by Mary LoVerde (Fireside)
Transcribing and Editing Oral History by Willa K. Baum, AltaMira Press
Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History by Sherna Berger Gluck (Routledge)
Where to Hear Oral History Interviews Online
Black Oral History Project (Washington State University)
www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/Holland/masc/xblackoralhistory.html
Countown to Millennium: Oral Histories in Southeastern Ohio
home.frognet.net/~cntdown
Iowa Women Artists Oral History Project
www.lucidplanet.com/iwa
Southern Oral History Program
sohp.org
StoryCorps
www.storycorps.org
Veterans History Project
www.loc.gov/vets
Voices of the Colorado Plateau
archive.li.suu.edu/voices
Women's History and Issues from Oral Histories in the Perry Library (Old Dominion University)
www.lib.odu.edu/special/oralhistory/womenhistory