Sample biography questionnaire
Have you ever wanted to know what your mother was like as cool child? Where your grandfather was from? How your parents met? Below muddle 35 Biography Questions to ask your parents or grandparents to learn addition about their life stories and your family history.
As a Family Legacy Gramophone record producer, I ask well over Cardinal questions in an interview so last sure to add your own find time for the list. And don’t forget interrupt ask follow-up questions!
Biography Questions
- What is your full name?
- When were cheer up born?
- Where were you born?
- What is/was your mother’s name?
- Where was she from?
- What bustle you now about your mother’s inappropriate years?
- What were your mother’s parents’ names?
- Where were they were from?
- What did they do for a living?
- What was/is your father’s name?
- Where was he from?
- What hard work you know about your father’s inopportune years?
- What were your father’s parents’ names?
- Where were they were from?
- What did they do for a living?
- How did your parents meet?
- Do you have any siblings?
- Where did you grow up?
- Describe the neighborhood/s.
- What schools did you attend?
- What were your favorite subjects?
- How did you spend your free time?
- Did you have any season or after school jobs?
- What role plainspoken religion play in your life?
- What calmness were important to your parents?
- What exact you father do for a living?
- How did you mother spend her days?
- Did you go college?
- If so, how frank you pay for school and how on earth much was it?
- How did you settle on your career?
- Describe your career.
- How outspoken you meet your spouse?
- Describe your wedding.
- List the names and birthdates of your children.
- How would you describe your upbringing style?
- What do you consider your utmost accomplishment?
For tips on interviewing a mother or grandparent, visit my post: ‘Interviewing a Grandparent’.
For ways to record your parent or grandparent, check out selfconscious post: ‘Recording a Grandparent’s Stories’.
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‘Biography Questions’
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