So essentially Omi wants us to come and sit down with her and have a chat with a tape recorder. It shouldn't be that hard but I think that it is probably a good idea to just come up with with some basic questions we are interested in asking so that we have at least some where to start. Sooooo....I was thinking we could start this thread to just post some ideas of stuff we want to know about/things other family members want to know about.
Also Heid could you look into renting a or borrowing a digital recorder or maybe how much one might cost...it seems that digitizing this might make it easier to assemble? (you have a desktop so you probably have a ton of hard drive space if not then we can figure something out...the files shouldn't be huge...you know this stuff...Ms. LIBRARIAN!) I don't know. Or we could go the tape way...whichever seems easier to you.
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Ani,
An oral history with Omi is a great idea. I was planning on taping her last summer, but time kind of got away from me. I already have a tape recorder since I couldn't find a digital voice recorder at Walmart the day I needed it, but Amazon has a bunch in the $50 range so it probably would be a good idea to invest in one. I will do some research and make a recommendation. The neurotic librarian in me is going to suggest that we use both when taping, that way if something goes wrong we have it in multiple formats. On a side note I think I have voice editing software on my computer so we will be set that way.
~Heidi
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