Interview Questions

OUR QUESTIONS PUT YOU ON MEMORY LANE  ❤️

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Preface

What would you like others to know before they listen to your life history which begins on the next page? You’ll likely record this page last. 

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Birth

How old are you now? When and where were you born? Tell us about the place of your birth and anything noteworthy about your birth.

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Name 

What’s your name? What’s the history of your name? Do you like your name and do you go by it? Any nicknames? If so, who called you by those?

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Parents

Where are your parents from? Where did they grow up? Have you been there? Were you raised by someone other than your natural parents?

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Parents part two

How did they meet? What brought them to the place you were born? What did they do for work? What did their typical day look like? What were they like? What were they interested in? What did you like to do with them? Were both your mom and dad around growing up? Which of your parents are you most like?

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Siblings

Do you have siblings? How many? Where do you fit? What are their names? Who are you closest with? Do you get along? Has your relationship changed over the years? What do you remember most about each of them?

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Childhood home

Where did you grow up? What was your home like? What was your bedroom like? What was your yard like? What was your town or city like?

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Childhood personality

How would you describe yourself as a child? How would others describe you?

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Earliest memories

What is the first thing you remember? What are your earliest memories as a child?

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Your day as a child

What did a typical day look like? Did you have chores or other work? Where did you spend your time? What were your favorite things to do and places to go? How would you describe your perfect day as a child?

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Childhood financial situation

What was your family’s financial situation growing up? How did it affect your day-to-day, or long-term perspective? What did you do to earn spending money and how much did you earn?

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Childhood friends

Who were your friends as a child? How did you meet? Are you still in touch? Who is the first friend you remember?

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Childhood friends part two

How did you and your friends spend time together? What good times, trouble, pranks, stories, or memories do you have?

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Pets

Did you have pets growing up? How many and what were they? What were their names? Were you close with any of them? How about pets later in life?

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Lost

Did you ever get lost or run away from home? How did it happen? How did you feel? How were you found?

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School

Where did you go to elementary, intermediate or jr. high, and high school? What was it like to be in class, at lunch, in the hallways, at recess? How big was your school? What do you remember about your classmates? Who were some of them, specifically?

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School part two

What were your favorite subjects? What were you naturally good at? Did you have any teachers that meant a lot to you or that you remember specifically? How were your grades? How was your social life? Did you participate in sports, clubs, or other extracurriculars? What do you remember, good and bad, about school?

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Childhood holidays

What were holidays like in your home growing up? Did your family have holiday traditions? Were there holidays you looked forward to most?

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Childhood favorites

As a child, what was your favorite meal, cartoon, show, free time activity, toy, hobby, holiday, season, color, book, movie, song, game?

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What you wanted to be

What did you want to be when you grew up? Were there any people or events that inspired this? Did you do it? Why or why not?

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The future

Did you picture the future in your mind as a child? What did you think it would look like? Were you close to your beliefs?

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Childhood fears

What were you afraid of as a child? What worried or concerned you? Why? Do those fears still remain, or did they subside?

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Childhood achievements

What were you proud of as a kid? Did you achieve anything that felt important at the time, or is still important to you today?

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Childhood religion

Did you attend church or other religious activities or events as a kid? How did religion fit into your family life growing up? What are some stories or memories surrounding church or religion?

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Childhood mistakes

Are there any particular mistakes or misdeeds as a child that stand out? Anything you learned from your childhood mistakes?

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Moving as a child

Did your family move when you were young? Where and why? How did it affect you?

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Growing up

What was the best part of childhood and growing up? What was the hardest or worst part?

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Grandparents

Who are your grandparents? Do you know their story? What memories did you create with them? What do you like most about them? How involved were they in your life? Are they still living?

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Extended family

Do you have uncles, aunts, or cousins that you created memorable experiences with? Which experiences come to mind, when did they happen, and who were you with?

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Teen heroes

Did you admire anyone famous as a teen? How did they spark your interests or drive fads?

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Early music

What was your favorite kind of music as a teenager? Did you have a favorite band? Do you still listen to them today? Are there particular songs that stand out? Do you recall the first album you ever purchased?

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You as a teenager

What would we find surprising to know about you as a teen?

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Free time as a teenager

What did you like to do in your free time? Who did you spend time with?

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Jobs as a teenager

Did you work as a teenager? What did you do? Did you like it? How much money did you earn? What did you spend it on? Did any of your jobs influence your future?

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Learning to drive

Did you learn to drive? Who taught you? What type of car did you learn to drive in? What was your first car? What are some early driving stories?

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First loves

Tell us about your first loves and first dates. What did a typical date look like? Did you break any hearts or have your heart broken?

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Leaving home

Tell us about the first time you left home. How did you feel? Where did you go? What were you setting out to do? How did it go?

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College

Did you attend college? What did you study and why? Would you choose the same path again? How did you pay for college? Can you share stories of your college days, roommates, activities?

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Jobs starting out

Where did you work early in your adult life? What jobs did you have, and why? How much did they pay? Why did you move on from them?

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Career

What did you do for a living longer term? Why? Tell us about your work. Tell us about people, places, and share stories from work. What did you like and dislike? What has your career taught you?

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Career do-over

If you could do it all over again, would you choose the same career? If not, and you could do anything, what would it be? Why?

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Spouse

Do you or did you have a spouse? How did you meet? What attracted you to each other? How old were you when you met? Tell us stories of your courtship or marriage.

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Spouse part two

Tell us about your spouse. How would you describe them? What do you enjoy doing together? What do you like most about them? What do you believe others like most about them? What are the best and most difficult parts of your relationship?

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Children

Did you have children? Why or why not? Tell us about them. What are their names? What is each of them like? Where are they and what are they doing now? Share stories and memories of them.

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Dwellings and geography

Where have you lived so far in your life? What were your homes like? Have you lived in apartments or houses? Do you have a favorite neighborhood, home, state, province, country?

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Ancestors

Where did your ancestors come from and what do you know about them? Do you know some of their stories, specifically?

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Family stories

Are there stories in your family, or in your family history, that are significant, interesting, crazy, or that have stuck with you? Any claims to fame?

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Military service part one

Did you serve in the military? When did you enlist and where did you serve? Why did you serve? Did you choose or were you drafted? In which branch of the military did you serve?

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Military service part two

How long did you serve? What was your rank? Were you in combat and what was that like? Were you close to anyone lost along the way that you’d like to talk about? What would you like to say about your military service?

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Public service

Did you serve in any public service capacities? What did you do and how did you like it? Why did you choose to serve the public?

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Transportation

What has been your primary mode of transportation? Have you owned vehicles? Which ones were your favorites? If you didn’t own vehicles, how did you get around?

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Vacations

Where did you go on vacations? What took you there? Do you have any stories or memorable experiences? What were your favorite vacations?

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Travel

What are the most interesting places you’ve been and why are they interesting to you? Where would you most like to go, but haven’t yet?

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Historical events

Have there been historical or world events that have shaped your life? What has happened in the world during your lifetime that you remember most or that had the biggest impact on the world?

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The world today

What is the world like today? How would you describe it to someone hearing this fifty years from now? How is it different from other periods in your life?

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Mentors, role models, heroes

Has anyone helped you in meaningful ways? Anyone you admire? Has anyone inspired you to be better or change your life? Saved your life? Is anyone inspiring to you now?

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An incredible thing

Have you ever done or experienced something incredible or heroic or wildly unlikely that nobody was around to see or that very few know about?

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Questions

What are some unanswered questions you have? What bends your mind when you try to think about it? What do you wish you knew more about?

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How old you feel

Regardless of how old you are chronologically, how old do you feel right now? How do you like being in this stage of your life relative to earlier stages? Any desire to go back, or trade the present for an earlier period, or are you happy where you are?

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Sickness and injury

Have you gone through periods of significant sickness, or sustained a major injury? How did it turn out? How did it impact your life, or how is it impacting you now? Was anyone in particular helpful to you throughout the process? Did you learn anything from these experiences?

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Your biggest trial

What is the most difficult thing you have ever gone through?

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Religion and higher power

Do you believe in God or a higher power of some kind? Do you believe life continues after death? What happens after death? Do you believe in heaven or hell? Do you belong to a religious denomination? What are your thoughts and how do you feel about these things?

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Miracles

Have you experienced anything you would consider miraculous? Will you talk about it?

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The kindest thing

What is the kindest thing another person has ever done for you? What acts of service or kindness have been rendered to you that you’d be willing to talk about?

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Experiences and stories

Tell us some funny, crazy, bad, sad, wild, harrowing, helpful, scary, awesome, kind, even embarrassing things that have happened to you at any period in your life. Are there particular experiences that shaped your life in some way?

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Change the world

If you could change something about the world, what would it be?

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Politics

Has politics on the local, national, or global level played a role in your life? Do you hold strong views?

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Mosts

What was your most terrifying moment? Most fun? Most surprised? Most disappointing? Most happy? Most sad?

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Spare time

As an adult, what did you do in your spare time? What did you spend your time thinking about when you didn’t have to think about anything at all?

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Describe yourself

How would you describe yourself? How would others describe you? What are your traits? What are you good at? What are the best and worst things about you? What makes you unique?

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Favorites today

What is your favorite food, TV show, free time activity, hobby, holiday, season, color, book, movie, song, game, drink?

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Inventions and innovations

What are the most important inventions and innovations of your lifetime? What came into existence while you were alive that had the greatest impact on the world or you personally?

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Especially proud of

Thinking across your entire life so far, what are you especially proud of?

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Happiness

How would you define happiness? What about the world or your surroundings makes you happy?

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Fears

What do you fear or worry about today? Has that changed over time? If so, how?

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Dreams

Do you dream when you sleep? Do you remember your dreams? What is your most recurring dream? Have you had dreams which affected your life?

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Hope

What do you hope for, for yourself and others?

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Regrets

Is there something you wish you could do over? Any regrets in particular?

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What's next right now

What’s next for you right now? What’s coming up? What are you looking forward to?

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Fairness

Is life fair? What has shaped your beliefs around fairness and the cards life deals?

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Aspirations

What would you do if you knew you would not fail? What have you dreamed about doing and maybe even still want to do today?

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Money

What would you do if money were no object? What would you do if money had no meaning at all?

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Expertise

If you could be an expert in any subject, or gain a particular skill that you do not currently have, what would it be? Why?

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Happy place

Where, or in which situation are you happiest? How often are you able to be there?

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Eulogies

If you could speak at your own funeral, what would you say? If you could speak at the funeral of someone you love, but who will outlive you, who would it be? What would you want others to know about them and what would you say?

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Lessons and principles

Are there lessons or principles that you’ve learned which have mattered to you, and which you believe could matter to others? What have your experiences taught you?

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Life philosophy

Do you have a life philosophy? Any guiding attitudes toward life?

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The rest of this very day

If you could do absolutely anything for the rest of this very day, what would it be?

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Remembrance

How would you like to be remembered?

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Advice from yourself

What advice would you give your younger self? At what age would that advice have been most helpful? What advice do you think an older version of yourself would wish to give you today?

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Closing remarks

What’s on your mind in closing? What advice or words would you hope to pass along to your posterity or others if you knew they would listen?

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The end. 😀