Watch our founder Mike Tapia being interviewed by leading American #genealogist Lisa Lison from @Areyoumycousin to find out more about how to capture family stories through oral history #genealogy #memoirs https://youtu.be/uckjtsMSlqU Lisa’s great website “Are You My Cousin?” is at www.lisalisson.com – there’s an amazing amount of very useful material there for researching your family history.
![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” […]
What do you by the dad who’s got everything this Father’s Day? Dads that love to share their stories will adore receiving an opportunity to relive life’s most important moments, from milestone events and adventurous escapades to everyday happenings that make life unique, with Recordalife. Whether loving sons and daughters have a father that’s always […]
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 […]
Thanks to all who came to see us at Family Tree Live – it was a great event and we met some lovely, interesting people. We had lots of interest and it was clear people liked the simplicity of what we offer – Recordalife Life Stories that capture the memoirs of people in their families, […]
Mother’s Day Gift We will shortly be celebrating Mother’s Day. We treasure them and thank them for all that they’ve done. Now that you’re an adult, the expectations for a Mother’s Day gift can change. It was nice as a child to give your mother a mug or a card, but now you’re older, you […]
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