Articles tagged with “oral history”
Pillar Articles
A complete, practical guide to recording your family's life stories — who to ask, what to ask, how to ask without making it weird, and what to do with the recordings once you have them. Built from the methods that actually work, not the ones that look good in articles.
Patrick Moore • May 16, 2026
How-To Guides
Most of us mean to ask. We don't. Then we lose the chance. Here's an honest, parent-neutral guide to interviewing your mom or dad — what actually works, what doesn't, and where the recording lives for the next twenty years.
Patrick Moore • May 13, 2026
How-To Guides
Most moms deflect when you ask them to 'tell their story.' Here's how to set up the kitchen-table interview, the script that breaks the deflection, the five pivots when she says 'oh, nobody wants to hear about that,' and the three questions to ask if you only get twenty minutes.
Patrick Moore • April 30, 2026
How-To Guides
There's a shoebox on a closet shelf with hundreds of photos of people nobody alive can fully name. Your mom knows who most of them are. She won't, forever. Here's how to fix it this month — before the only memory that still knows goes quiet.
Patrick Moore • April 22, 2026
How-To Guides
Every article gives you a list of questions to ask your grandparents. Almost none of them tell you what to do next. Here's the part nobody writes: how to actually capture the answers so they outlive the conversation.
Patrick Moore • April 11, 2026
