QUESTIONS

Posterecord-suggested questions are below.  If desired, you will have the opportunity to substitute these with questions of your own.

NOTE: Couples, Parent(s), and Grandparent(s) only cover the timeframe of each status onward.  (i.e. if you select Parents only, you will not record how they became a Couple – or their Individual lives before meeting one another).  Choose as many statuses as apply.

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(Questions may vary for younger children)

  1. Tell me about your grandparents.
  2. Tell me about your mom.
  3. Tell me about your dad.
  4. Tell me about your brother(s) and sister(s).
  5. Tell me about your aunt(s) and uncle(s) and cousin(s).
  6. Tell me about your best friend(s).
  7. Tell me about your neighborhood, the people who live here.
  8. Tell me about the pets you have/had.
  9. What are your favorite foods? Least favorite foods?
  10. Tell me about school – your class(es), teacher(s), classmates, etc.
  11. What is your favorite subject? Least favorite subject?
  12. Tell me about the activities you’re involved in, hobbies, etc.
  13. What is/are your favorite movie(s)?
  14. Who is/are your favorite band(s), musicians, etc?
  15. What are your favorite TV, streaming shows?
  16. What do you like to do during the summer?
  17. What are your favorite things? What makes you happy?
  18. What are your least favorite things? What makes you sad?
  19. What do you want to be when you grow up?
  20. If you could do anything, what would you do?
  1. Tell me about your grandparents.
  2. Tell me about your mom.
  3. Tell me about your dad.
  4. Tell me about your brother(s) and sister(s).
  5. Tell me about your aunt(s) and uncle(s) and cousin(s).
  6. Tell me about your best friend(s).
  7. Tell me about your neighborhood, the people who live here.
  8. Tell me about the pets you have/had.
  9. What are your favorite foods? Least favorite foods?
  10. Tell me about school – your class(es), teacher(s), classmates, etc.
  11. What is your favorite subject? Least favorite subject?
  12. Tell me about the activities you’re involved in, hobbies, etc.
  13. What is/are your favorite movie(s)?
  14. Who is/are your favorite band(s), musicians, etc?
  15. What are your favorite TV, streaming shows?
  16. What do you like to do during the summer?
  17. Tell me about any romantic interests etc.
  18. What are your favorite things? What makes you happy?
  19. What are your least favorite things? What makes you sad?
  20. If you could do anything, what would you do?
  1. Talk about your family tree, as much as you know. How did your family get here?
  2. Talk about your grandparents: origin, careers, personalities.
  3. Talk about your parents: origin, careers, moves, personalities.
  4. Talk about growing up with your siblings. What were they like? Memories?
  5. Talk about your house growing up. What memories do you have?
  6. What are your earliest memories?
  7. Talk about the neighborhood where you grew up.
  8. Talk about where you went to school, teachers, classmates, friends.
  9. What did you do after leaving school?
  10. Talk about your travels.
  11. Talk about where you have lived and what you have done there.
  12. Talk about your training, different jobs, and career.
  13. Tell me about any romantic interests etc.
  14. What are your favorite things? What makes you happy?
  15. What are your least favorite things? What makes you sad?
  16. What events had the biggest impact on your life?
  17. What are you most proud of?
  18. If you could do anything, what would you do?
  19. What are you most proud of?
  20. What is the meaning of life?
  1. Talk about your family tree, as much as you know. How did your family get here?
  2. Talk about your grandparents: origin, careers, personalities.
  3. Talk about your parents: origin, careers, moves, personalities.
  4. Talk about growing up with your siblings. What were they like? Memories?
  5. Talk about your house growing up. What memories do you have?
  6. What are your earliest memories?
  7. Talk about the neighborhood where you grew up.
  8. Talk about where you went to school, teachers, classmates, friends.
  9. What did you do after leaving school?
  10. Talk about where you have lived and what you have done there.
  11. Talk about your training, different jobs, and career.
  12. Talk about your faith growing up and your faith now.
  13. Talk about your travels.
  14. What are your favorite things? What makes you happy?
  15. What events had the biggest impact on your life?
  16. Would you have done anything differently?
  17. What are you most proud of?
  18. What is the meaning of life?
  19. How would you like to be remembered?
  20. What advice do you have?
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  1. Talk about meeting and dating your significant other.
  2. Do you have any favorite stories about your significant other?
  3. How are you most different?
  4. How are you most similar?
  5. What have you learned about yourself from being with your significant other?
  6. How has being with your significant other changed you?
  7. What qualities do you value most in your significant other?
  8. Any stories about pets?
  9. If you’ve lived together, talk about how, when, where, etc.
  10. Where have you gone and what have you done together?
  1. Talk about meeting and dating your spouse/partner.
  2. Do you have any favorite stories from your marriage or about your spouse/partner?
  3. How did you know they were “the one”?
  4. How are you most different?
  5. How are you most similar?
  6. Talk about your marriage proposal.
  7. Talk about your wedding.
  8. Talk about your honeymoon.
  9. Where was your first home together? Where else have you lived?
  10. What qualities do you value most in your spouse/partner?
  11. What have you learned about yourself from being with your spouse/partner?
  12. How has being with your spouse/partner changed you?
  1. Did you always want to have children? Why (not)?
  2. Any pregnancy stories, difficulties, etc.?
  3. Describe what happened when (each of) you found out you were expecting.
  4. Describe where you live (town, street, house, etc.)
  5. Describe what you are/have been doing during the pregnancy.
  6. Describe reaction and support of family and friends.
  7. Any effects, emotions, cravings, etc. to speak of?
  8. Have you picked out a name? If so, how?
  9. Do you know the gender of the baby?
  10. What will you carry forward and leave behind from the way you were raised?
  11. What are your hopes for your child?
  1. Did you always want to have children? Why (not)?
  2. Any pregnancy stories, difficulties, etc.?
  3. Describe what happened when (each of) you found out you were expecting.
  4. Describe where you live (town, street, house, etc.)
  5. Describe what you are/have been doing during the pregnancy.
  6. Describe reaction and support of family and friends.
  7. Any effects, emotions, cravings, etc. to speak of?
  8. Have you picked out a name? If so, how?
  9. Do you know the gender of the baby?
  10. What will you carry forward and leave behind from the way you were raised?
  11. What are your hopes for your child?
  1. How did you decide when to have children?
  2. How did you decide how many children to have?
  3. What do you remember about finding out you were going to be a parent?
  4. What was/were the pregnancy(ies) of your child(ren) like?
  5. Can you describe the moment when you saw your child(ren) for the first time?
  6. How did you choose your child(ren)’s name(s)?
  7. What are your earliest memories of your child(ren)?
  8. What’s one thing you wish you’d known before becoming a parent?
  9. Do you remember any songs that you used to sing to your child(ren)?
  10. Do you remember any books that you used to read with your child(ren)?
  11. What was/were your child(ren) like growing up?
  12. What are your favorite memories of your child(ren)?
  13. What were the hardest moments of being a parent?
  14. Do you have any favorite stories about your child(ren)?
  15. What was it like for you when your child(ren) left the nest?
  16. Why are you proud of your child(ren)?
  17. What are your hopes for your child(ren)?
  18. If you could do it over again, would you raise your child(ren) differently?
  19. What have you learned about yourself from being a parent?
  20. What advice would you give your child(ren) about raising their child(ren)?
  21. How has being a parent changed you?
  1. How did you decide when to have children?
  2. How did you decide how many children to have?
  3. What do you remember about finding out you were going to be a parent?
  4. What was/were the pregnancy(ies) of your child(ren) like?
  5. Can you describe the moment when you saw your child(ren) for the first time?
  6. How did you choose your child(ren)’s name(s)?
  7. What are your earliest memories of your child(ren)?
  8. What’s one thing you wish you’d known before becoming a parent?
  9. Do you remember any songs that you used to sing to your child(ren)?
  10. Do you remember any books that you used to read with your child(ren)?
  11. What was/were your child(ren) like growing up?
  12. What are your favorite memories of your child(ren)?
  13. What were the hardest moments of being a parent?
  14. Do you have any favorite stories about your child(ren)?
  15. What was it like for you when your child(ren) left the nest?
  16. Why are you proud of your child(ren)?
  17. What are your hopes for your child(ren)?
  18. If you could do it over again, would you raise your child(ren) differently?
  19. What have you learned about yourself from being a parent?
  20. What advice would you give your child(ren) about raising their child(ren)?
  21. How has being a parent changed you?
  1. How did you decide when to have children?
  2. How did you decide how many children to have?
  3. What do you remember about finding out you were going to be a parent?
  4. What was/were the pregnancy(ies) of your child(ren) like?
  5. Can you describe the moment when you saw your child(ren) for the first time?
  6. How did you choose your child(ren)’s name(s)?
  7. What are your earliest memories of your child(ren)?
  8. What’s one thing you wish you’d known before becoming a parent?
  9. Do you remember any songs that you used to sing to your child(ren)?
  10. Do you remember any books that you used to read with your child(ren)?
  11. What was/were your child(ren) like growing up?
  12. What are your favorite memories of your child(ren)?
  13. What were the hardest moments of being a parent?
  14. Do you have any favorite stories about your child(ren)?
  15. What was it like for you when your child(ren) left the nest?
  16. Why are you proud of your child(ren)?
  17. What are your hopes for your child(ren)?
  18. If you could do it over again, would you raise your child(ren) differently?
  19. What have you learned about yourself from being a parent?
  20. What advice would you give your child(ren) about raising their child(ren)?
  21. How has being a parent changed you?
  1. Can you describe the moment(s) you found out you were going to be a grandparent?
  2. Can you describe the moment(s) when you saw your grandchild(ren) for the first time?
  3. What are your earliest memories of your grandchild(ren)?
  4. Do you remember any songs that you used to sing to your grandchild(ren)?
  5. Do you remember any books that you used to read with your grandchild(ren)?
  6. What was/were your grandchild(ren) like growing up?
  7. What are your favorite memories of your grandchild(ren)?
  8. What were the hardest moments of being a grandparent?
  9. Do you have any favorite stories about your grandchild(ren)?
  10. Why are you proud of your grandchild(ren)?
  11. What are your hopes for your grandchild(ren)?
  12. What have you learned about yourself from being a grandparent?
  13. How has being a grandparent changed you?
  1. Can you describe the moment(s) you found out you were going to be a grandparent?
  2. Can you describe the moment(s) when you saw your grandchild(ren) for the first time?
  3. What are your earliest memories of your grandchild(ren)?
  4. Do you remember any songs that you used to sing to your grandchild(ren)?
  5. Do you remember any books that you used to read with your grandchild(ren)?
  6. What was/were your grandchild(ren) like growing up?
  7. What are your favorite memories of your grandchild(ren)?
  8. What were the hardest moments of being a grandparent?
  9. Do you have any favorite stories about your grandchild(ren)?
  10. Why are you proud of your grandchild(ren)?
  11. What are your hopes for your grandchild(ren)?
  12. What have you learned about yourself from being a grandparent?
  13. How has being a grandparent changed you?
  1. Can you describe the moment(s) you found out you were going to be a grandparent?
  2. Can you describe the moment(s) when you saw your grandchild(ren) for the first time?
  3. What are your earliest memories of your grandchild(ren)?
  4. Do you remember any songs that you used to sing to your grandchild(ren)?
  5. Do you remember any books that you used to read with your grandchild(ren)?
  6. What was/were your grandchild(ren) like growing up?
  7. What are your favorite memories of your grandchild(ren)?
  8. What were the hardest moments of being a grandparent?
  9. Do you have any favorite stories about your grandchild(ren)?
  10. Why are you proud of your grandchild(ren)?
  11. What are your hopes for your grandchild(ren)?
  12. What have you learned about yourself from being a grandparent?
  13. How has being a grandparent changed you?
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