The Family Tree By Terence L. Day Terence L. Day, genealogist and journalist, is on the Washington State University faculty.
Children are natural interviewers - curious, direct and uninhibited.
I was reminded of this a couple weeks ago when we called home while vacationing in California. Aaron followed up. Interviewing is just that simple, and it's an important skill for family historians as well as for journalists. I suppose journalism was my destiny, for I came by my interviewing skills quite young. While my brother and friends played outside with her grandson, I interviewed the Norwegian lady who wore her white hair up in a bun.