How to collect information for the first three generations

Pull out your family groups sheets you did last week. Now take those sheets and go talk to each of your parents separately. In person works best. Doing these interviews one on one is important. Answers are more candid when not being overheard or interrupted. If someone is telling an old story in front of someone who has heard it a hundred times before, the story gets shortened and the speaker less enthusiastic. Sit down…