Family Oral History Across the World

Table of Contents FOREWORD MAP OF MAJOR LOCATIONS PREFACE PART I: ORAL HISTORY APPLIED TO FAMILY HISTORY CHAPTER 1: ORAL HISTORY AS PART OF FAMILY HISTORY Family History Defined by Families and by Those Who Study Them The Role of Oral History for a Family History Family Oral History as a Research Methodology Memoirs, Autobiographies, Biographies Why Stories Matter A note on the author’s family in a wide, wide world CHAPTER 2: WHAT MAKES A FAMILY? WHO SAYS? The Real-time Concept of Family From Exploratory Research for This Book, Who Says? From Census Data Multi-generations, More Interview Opportunities Internal Country Differences A note on the author’s family in a multigenerational world. CHAPTER 3: KINSHIP IN CHANGING DEMOGRAPHIES Census Data Combined with Other Sources Backdrop Research to Give Context What Different Types of Families Have to Say Alternative family? It never felt like one! Not Married, with Children The Possible Impact of Gender Step or Blended Families: Friends and Other Associates Single People A note on the author’s friends like family PART II: CASE STUDIES CHAPTER 4: SMALL BUSINESS AND CAREER FAMILIES Small Business Families The Bakers The World on Wheels Market Gardeners Career Families National Park Service Families Scientist Musicians Mine Workers A note on the author’s family agricultural roots transplanted CHAPTER 5: THE COLD CASE OF A LOST PLANTATION FAMILY Oral History Challenged by Silence A View Across Boundaries Getting Away from Family Breaking Silence to Find Family and Family History Getting Started Finding Grandmother and Her Family Finding Aunt Ella’s Blue Bloods Finding His Biological Father The Ancestry of Tensquatawa Academic Research: Effects of Slavery on Descendants of Plantation Slaves Lost Census Data Demographic Studies and Discoveries, Plantation Effects A Plantation Descendant on the Plantation Effect Over Generations A Plantation Descendant on the Value and Validity of Oral History Author’s Note: A Freeze Frame Connection CHAPTER 6: INDIGENOUS FAMILIES OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST Special Terminology Family And Lineage Histories of California Mission Indians Overcoming Stereotypes and Extinction The Mission Context and Challenges to Family History The Role of Mission San Fernando Rey as a Lost and Found Oral Tradition and DNA: Do They Concur? Years Later, Changes Affecting Mission Indian Family History Family Histories in Yaqui Communities Trilingual Family Oral Histories of the Pasqua Yaqui Voices from Penjamo, another Yaqui Community Meeting, Listening, Searching Iteration to Trust Protocols of Navajo Family Oral History Toward Indigenizing Family Oral History Effect of Boarding School on Language and History Interviewing Family Members, the Importance of Place and Protocol Passing the Stories On Author’s Note: Where did they all go? CHAPTER 7: FAMILIES FROM WAR-TORN, POVERTY-STRICKEN, AND/OR OPPRESSIVE REGIMES Family Voices, Escaping, Remembering, Moving On Remembering a German Grandma, Research to Prevent Another Holocaust Wartime Effects on Australian Market Gardeners A Japanese American Family Experiences and the Passage of Time Coming from Poland under Soviet Rule From Vietnam to France, Leaving the Fear Behind Coming from Mexico: Murder, Poverty, PTSD, and a Matriarch’s Interventions Orphaned in the Philippines to a Cross World Family From the Warm Seychelles to Snowy Canada Summary Statement from a Dedicated Life Author’s Note: On Behalf of Dreams PART III: FAMILY HISTORY MEMORY, EMOTION, AND ETHICS CHAPTER 8: THE ROLE OF MEMORY IN FAMILY ORAL HISTORY Quick Examples of Memory Sources and their Range of Emotions Types of Memory Especially Important to Family Oral History Family Memory, Autobiographical Memory Collective, Public, Historical, Individual Memories Long Term Memory Subsets Family Memory in Practice Childhood Memory Oral Historical: Making Family Memories in Nontraditional Ways Pointers from an Oral Historian Working in Hospital Palliative Care Pointers from a Speech Pathologist Working in Home Care Settings The Reliability and Validity of Memories Author’s Note: The Purple Chair Chapter 9: THE EMOTIONAL CONTINUUM IN FAMILY ORAL HISTORIES Emotion in This Book’s Quotes Studies About Emotional Content in Interviews Trauma, PTSD, and Triggering Traumatic Memory Awareness on the Sadder Side of the Emotional Continuum Sharing Salient Memories or Not Collective Memory with Silence, Secrets, Resilience and Kinship Accessing Family History Interviews, Listener Effects On the Positive Side of the Continuum: Pride, Joy, Gratitude ,and More Author’s Note: A Salient Memory Down the Chute Chapter 10: THE ETHICS OF FAMILY ORAL HISTORY Starting with Informed Consent Ethics Considered by Interviewees From Dialogs on Navigating the Ethics of Family Oral History A Professor in Dialog: What is Ethics? Ethical, Legal, or Moral? Autonomy and Dignity Trust and Fairness Multicultural Considerations Special Situations and Family Dynamics A Practitioner in Dialog: Quandaries in Family Oral History A Secret? Embarrassment and Secrets? Summary Dialog: Learning Ethics Author’s Note: Pinocchio PART IV: INTRODUCTION TO A FAMILY ORAL HISTORY PROCESS AND APPLICATION A Process Outlined Working with the Family CHAPTER 11: PHASE ONE, GETTING STARTED AND ORGANIZED Leadership Roles: Anchor, Team Scope and Objectives Consent Forms, Family Trees, Outlines and Interviews, at the Start Author’s Note: Inside the Family Tree CHAPTER 12: PHASE ONE, ORGANIZING TECHNOLOGY Oral History Recording Technologies with Voices of Experts Technology and its Back-up Systems Audio or Video? Another View on Video About Training for Recording Interviews Video Options On-the-road Technology Author’s Note: Zoom for the Holidays CHAPTER 13: PHASE ONE, LEARNING ABOUT ARCHIVING A Tour of Archives Family Established Archives: Chinese, Chiriaco, Moulton Western Reserve Historical Society Steeped in Context LDS Church Archives National Park Service Multigenerational Family Histories Community Archives, England Silent Military Museum Archives, California Archiving Family History: The Basics Starter Filing System that Becomes an Oral History Archive NDMS, Interview Data as a Searchable Working File and Early Archive Cost Considerations Author’s Note: A Bridge and a Voice in the Archived Box CHAPTER 14: PHASE TWO, INTERVIEWING The Interview Tenets from the Writings of Oral Historians The Interview Reconsidered Preparing and Conducting Family History Interviews Example: The Initial Interview Example: The Significant Memories Interview Example: The Series of Interviews by Time Periods and/or by Sites Example: Specialized Interviews Who Gets Interviewed? Context and Fact Checking Progress Reviews Author’s Note, A Grandma’s Role in Interviews CHAPTER 15: PHASE TWO, TEXTUALIZING FAMILY VOICES IN CONTEXT About Family Oral History Transcriptions Other Approaches to Transcribing Editorial Intervention Editorial Integration Beyond Words Editorial Integration over a Generation Author’s Note: Family Over Time and Place CHAPTER 16: PHASES THREE, FOUR, FIVE: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER, INTEGRATING, WRITING/SCRIPTING, SHARING The Roles of Interviews with other Sources. Weaving Multiple Stories into a History Integrating Visuals Ways of Sharing Family Oral History Closing Thoughts from Four Elders and Two Youngers EPILOGUE: AN ETHICS DIALOGUE ACROSS THE OCEAN An Ethics of Care Reconciling differing narratives The integrity of the narrative Family secrets or new information Where will family history interviews be shared? Promoting the Persistence of Memory Appendix A: Interview Recognitions, Document and Online Sources Recorded Interviews Non recorded Interviews, Phone Conversations, Emails, and Mail Books and Book Chapters Consulted and/or Cited Presentations Articles Cited Selected Electronic Sites from those Mentioned Appendix B: Oral History Resources, Training Sites, and Archives Mentioned Some Oral History Online Training and Related Topics Some Oral History and Related Organizations on Ethics Selected Archives from those Mentioned TV and Online Interviews with the Author Appendix C Exploratory Research Plans, Forms, Results Summary of Exploratory Research Approach Preliminary Results Pre-Interview Checkbox Survey Form Summary of the Checkbox Survey Results Pre-interview Questionnaire Form Appendix D: Example Family Tree with Family Advice Advice on Family History Appendix E: Table of Figures Acknowledgements Index TBD About the Author