As one of the writing projects is based on the successful completion of doing an oral history...following are a few suggestions and sites that detail the process of doing an oral history interview:
Perhaps the most essential part of doing an oral history is the development of rapport with the interviewee. For many of you who may be interviewing relatives, this may be easy as you will already have rapport with your relative, but regardless the development of a "good vibe" with the person you are interviewing is an integral part of establishing ethos with the person you are talking with.
So, oral history is not just sitting down and talking with a person. There is the development rapport, writing out questions before the interview, the recordation (with either an analog or digital device or taking notes) of the interview, and development and management of the interview to assure that the oral history questions and answers flow with some continuity.
Below are a two links that will help in this process, and as always if there are any questions on any of this material, please email.
Read this great site on how to do oral history: http://dohistory.org/on_your_own/toolkit/oralHistory.html
This is a site from Finlandia University with audio samples of oral history interviews: http://www.kentsgenealogy.com/finnamericanoralhistories/
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