Productive Questions

Unexpected questions can often yield surprisingly productive results. I’d be grateful if you would share such questions with the other readers of this blog. Submit the questions, and some of the surprising answers you received, by email to me, and I will post the results on this blog.

To get you started in your thinking, let me give a few examples:

What were your duties as a small child?
What did Saturday or Sunday mean to you as you were growing up?
What holiday was most special to your family, and how did you celebrate it?
When and how did you learn to drive a car?
When you were small, what did you hope to do when you grew up?

Click here to find 119 questions that were abstracted from Virginia Allee’s “A Family History Questionnaire” in the October 1978 issue of Family Heritage Magazine.