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1077. Great Christmas gifts! : Oral History: The Easiest, Most Rewarding Way to Finish a Life Story By Rachel J. Trotter

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One of the amazing things you can do at a Family History Library is record you, or someone else on a CD, and even a video!  You can also take a VHS recording and have it made into a DVD.  Those would make wonderful and timeless Christmas gifts! Oral History: The Easiest, Most Rewarding Way to Finish a Life Story By Rachel J. Trotter  · October 17, 2018 Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE Read more family history tips at  Evalogue Life . There is true power in oral history. Recently I sat with a client as we worked on writing his life story. I asked a simple question about the example his parents set for him. As he started to talk, he became emotional relaying an experience with his deceased parents. I reached out and pressed “record” on my  digital recorder  that was sitting between the two of us. As he shared a particularly tender story, tears streamed down his cheeks and the emotion was captured in his voice on the recorder. I