Interview Questions

Contributed by Shonna Alva. Thanks Shonna.

1. How old were you when you had your Patriarchal Blessing?

2. What Health or Medical issues or problems do you remember being discussed by your blood relatives?

3. Any specific symptoms you remember being described or credited with someone's death? i.e. "The Indians ran him to death. He was out a ways from the house and ran all the way home and it burned up his lungs." (The symptoms described with this incident could also have been heart failure.) or "He had the palsy and he shook so bad he couldn't write."

4. What was your favorite Pretend game?

5. Do you remember what Nursery Rhymes your mother read or recited to you? If so, recite them as best you can.

6. Did you have a favorite poem? Do you still remember it now?

Birth

1. Were you the first child in your family or do you have older siblings?

2. Where were you born? At home? In a hospital?

3. Was there something unusual about the day you were born?

4. Who was there when you were born?

5. How much did you weigh?

6. Did you have any hair?

7. What was happening in history around the time you were born?

Early Years

1. What is your earliest childhood memory?

2. What was your favorite toy?

3. Who did you play with?

4. What was your favorite bedtime story?

5. Did you have any pets? Describe them and any memories.

6. Did you have a favorite blanket to cuddle in?

7. Who was your best friend?

8. What did you like to do with your brother(s) and/or sister(s)?

9. Did you have a secret hiding place?

10. What chores did you do?

11. What was your favorite treat?

12. Do you remember your first day of school?

13. Who was your favorite teacher?

14. What subject did you like best in your early school years?

15. When you were young, what did you want to be when you grew up?

16. What memories do you have from your early school years or before?

Family

1. Describe your mother?

2. Describe your father?

3. What is your fondest memory of your father?

4. What is your mother's most memorable quality?

5. What makes your parents stand out in a crowd?

6. What did your dad do for a living?

7. Do you have a favorite recipe from childhood? Do you know how to make it now?

8. What did your mom like to do?

9. What did your dad like to do?

10. How many brothers and sisters do you have? What are they like?

11. Do you remember your grandparents? Tell me about them?

12. Did they ever tell you anything about their lives? If so what do you remember?

13. Do you have any memories of great grand parents? Or great Aunt or Uncles?

14. If you didn't ever know them, what have you heard about them?

15. How many cousins do you have?

16. Did you live close to them? If so what were they like?

17. Did you ever travel a long distance to visit family? What was the trip like?

18. Has your family had reunions? If so what were they like?

Sports

1. What sports did you enjoy?

2. Were you ever on a team?

3. When did you learn how to swim?

4. Do you know how to ballroom dance?

5. What sport do you enjoy most now? As a teen? As a younger child?

6. Have you ever gone fishing?

7. Are you a person who likes to do adventurous things like river rafting, scuba diving, bungee jumping, rock climbing, etc? What do you like best?

8. Do you like to hike and/or camp? Who do you ususally go with?

High School Days

1. What was your favorite subject?

2. What did you enjoy doing with friends?

3. Did you go to your High School Prom? Tell me about it.

4. What was your first formal like? Or Tux, etc?

5. What was your first date like?

6. What dances were popular then?

7. Were you involved in any clubs or activities? Speech team, drama, band, service organization, chess club, Pep Squad, etc.? Explain?

8. Where you involved in student government?

9. Who was your favorite teacher?

10. Did you get good grades?

11. What was graduation like?

12. Do you miss your high school friends?

College

1. Did you go to college or trade school?

2. If so, where did you go to school?

3. What subject did you graduate in? What year?

4. Did you live away from home during college?

5. What did you do for fun in college?

6. Did you live in the dorms?

7. What is your favorite memory from your college years?

Wedding

1. How did you meet your spouse?

2. How did you propose or get proposed to?

3. Did you get or give a yes answer right away?

4. Was there any competition?

5. Where did you get married? And when?

6. Who came to the wedding?

7. Did you have a reception? What was it like?

8. Where did you go on your honeymoon?

9. Did anything funny happen during the wedding, reception or honeymoon?

Mission

1. Did you serve a Mission? If so where did you go?

2. Did you serve with the Peace Corp or some other service organization?

3. What is your fondest memory from your Mission/service experience?

4. How did you grow?

5. What was hardest about it?

6. Do you still have contact with people you met?

Military Experiences

1. Did you serve in the military? What branch?

2. How long were you in the military?

3. Where were you stationed?

4. What was your favorite time during this period?

5. Did you ever have to leave your family for a long time?

6. What did you do in the military?

Married Life

1. How long have you been married?

2. What do you like most about your spouse?

3. When was the hardest time during your marriage?

4. What is the best memory you have of your marriage?

5. How many children do you have? Tell me about them.

6. Do you share the chores as a couple?

7. Do you have any traditions?

Employment

1. What was you first real job?

2. What was your favorite job?

3. Did you ever have a time when you didn't have a job and wanted one?

4. What job did you work the longest at?

5. Did you ever have a job that you didn't like?

6. What have you learned about yourself from your various jobs?

Homes

1. Describe your childhood home(s)?

2. Describe your first home away from your parents?

3. Describe your dream home?

4. Do you like to move or stay put?

5. How long have you lived where you are living now?

6. Have you ever had a garden? Are you any good at it?

7. Do you like to redecorate?

8. What is your favorite room in the house?

9. Do you have a special picture hanging on your wall?

10. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live?

11. What is the best thing about your home town?

Church

1. What are some of the church callings you have had?

2. What calling did you enjoy the most?

3. Which one helped you grow the most?

4. Have you always been a member of your current church?

5. If not how were you converted?

6. Would you like to share you testimony or a special experience?

History

1. Who is the first Prophet you remember?

2. Do you remember how you felt about the ______War?

3. Do you remember the lunar landing? Were you excited?

4. What were you doing when you heard that the Berlin Wall was coming down? How did that make you feel?

5. What wss the most important historic event in your lifetime?

5. When was your first airplane ride?

6. Do you remember the Great Depression or did you parents tell you what it was like?

Feelings

1. When were your happiest times in life?

2. What was your saddest moment?

3. What really makes you laugh?

4. Do you cry at movies? What is your favorite movie and why?

5. What is your favorite book?

6. Are you patriotic?

7. What is the best thing about your home town?

Misc.

1. What hobbies do you have?

2. Do you have a favorite picture of yourself?

3. What is your favorite quality about yourself?

4. What do you want people to think of when they think of you?

5. What was your favorite vacation?

6. Have you ever traveled outside your home country?

7. Do you have a favorite game? When did you first learn to play it?

8. Do you speak a foreigh language?

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