Articles tagged with “oral history”
How-To Guides
That dusty box of cassettes holds more than magnetic tape; it holds voices, stories, and laughter you can't get back. This guide offers practical steps to digitize old audio cassettes, converting precious recordings into a lasting digital format you can share and cherish for generations.
Patrick Moore • July 4, 2026
How-To Guides
Tired of the same old interview questions? This guide offers creative, gentle ways to help seniors share their stories using sensory prompts, music, photos, and shared activities—perfect for those who are reluctant or facing memory challenges.
The Memory Murals Team • June 28, 2026
How-To Guides
Many seniors want to share their stories but don't know where to start. This guide offers practical, gentle ways for them to take the lead in recording their own life story, from simple audio apps to creative writing prompts, ensuring their unique voice is preserved for generations.
Patrick Moore • June 16, 2026
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
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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
How-To Guides
To unlock a family member's history, stop acting like a biographer and start acting like a key-holder. Here's how to move past one-word answers.
Patrick Moore • January 28, 2026
