Recording Your Story: Oral History & Memoirs

Date: September 23, 2025
Time: 6:00–8:00 PM
Presenter: John Harry
Every family has stories worth telling. This workshop will teach you how to conduct and record oral histories with relatives, preserving voices and memories for the future. Additionally, learn helpful tips for writing personal memoirs or family stories and discover tools and strategies to preserve and share recorded interviews. Capture your family’s unique narrative before it’s lost to time.

This is part four of a series of four workshops called "From Portage County with Love: Preserving Your Personal Past." Please use the following links to sign up for the other three:

Part one: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/portagecountyhistoricalsociety/event/genealogy/

Part two: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/portagecountyhistoricalsociety/event/digitization/

Part three: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/portagecountyhistoricalsociety/event/preservingheirlooms/

If you attend all four workshops, you will receive a $20 Portage County Historical Society General Store gift certificate, which will be distributed at the fourth workshop.