Interviewing relatives should never be a “one time and you are done” thing, even if the person insists they cannot remember anything else. Use documents you have located to get the interviewee’s memory going. The name of an informant or a funeral home on a death certificate, the name of neighbor in a census, a street address of a home, and other details can easily jog someone’s memories.
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