Re-Interview

Have you re-interviewed relatives recently?

Sometimes this can be particularly helpful if you have made new discoveries about things your relative might have had first or second hand knowledge of.

• Do you locate a family living next to the interviewee’s parents in 1920 that had the same last name as the mother and whom the interviewee never mentioned?
• Does an estate settlement mention a family member living in a location that was “news” to you? Your relative may know something.

New details may jog the respondent’s mind about things you never even knew to ask the first time around.