Leading genealogist Lisa Lisson from Are You My Cousin? will be interviewing our founder Mike on Facebook Live about capturing contemporary oral history of loved ones such as grandparents. Tune in this Thursday 1pm EST (6pm GMT). How To Save Your Personal History for Future Generations https://www.facebook.com/areyoumycousin
This is the seventh installment of our serialisation of our upcoming book The Recordalife Guide to Creating Your Memoirs. Every post will be a section from this book, which we will make available at the end of the serialisation. Click here to read the previous parts of our Guide. Who Are You And Why Does […]
This is the sixth installment of our serialisation of our upcoming book The Recordalife Guide to Creating Your Memoirs. Every post will be a section from this book, which we will make available at the end of the serialisation. Click here to read the previous parts of our Guide. Getting Read to Write Your […]
![Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008)[1] was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.](https://www.recordalife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Recordalife-with-Studs-Terkel-1200x.jpg)
![Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008)[1] was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.](https://www.recordalife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Recordalife-with-Studs-Terkel-1200x-614x346.jpg)
Today’s Life Story Gift Pack shipments include one going to Chicago, home of our inspiration, Studs Terkel. So we just had to include a pic of his memoirs in tribute. It’s a privilege to be able to return the favour to Chicagoans by capturing some of their life stories too. As on Wikipedia: Louis “Studs” […]
This is the fifth installment of our serialisation of our upcoming book The Recordalife Guide to Creating Your Memoirs. Every post will be a chapter from this book, which we will make available at the end of the serialisation. Part 1 was the Introduction and followed our popular blog post on The Five Elements of […]
Read about the value of oral histories and how they can really capture people’s fascinating life stories and voice in The Observer. A very nice article, mentioning us too, by Nosheen Iqbal on the importance of oral histories and capturing people’s life stories and voice. it is such a privilege being able to record the […]
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