Keeping Family Stories Alive: A Creative Guide to Taping Your Family Life and Love

Bruce Grainger is head of Public Services at the Macdonald Library,
McGill University.

Rosenbluth brings her professional experience of recording family
interviews and producing radio documentaries to this guide for recording
family histories on tape. The introductory chapters, which discuss such
aspects as memory and storytelling, reveal her strong personal
commitment to family and her belief in the value of recording family
history. Topics covered in later chapters include interviewing,
audiotaping, videotaping, and preserving and processing the tapes. Also
included are excerpts from actual interviews and suggests lists of
questions covering various stages in life. The book concludes with a
brief list of suggested readings and a useful index. Readers will find
many common-sense observations and much practical advice in this book.