[or-roots] test and topics

[JNCRIDGE at aol.com]

This forum has been strong on pioneer era family history.  The generation 
that grew up during the depression and served in WW II will not be around much 
longer to share stories, and it would be interesting to see interviews posted 
with people who grew up without refrigeration for food, before the water was 
clean and childhood disease was common.  Getting several people of common 
experience together, with photographs and other artifacts to stimulate memory, should 
generate stories that will fill in some of the gaps of 20th century family 
history.  Some topics for discussion:
  How did they get and prepare food?  Did they buy at a store, or raise and 
butcher their own?  If they did not have refrigerators, what did they do?
   What did they do for entertainment?
   How early did they start working?
   What diseases did they or family members have?
    How close were they to family and neighbors?
   Did they rely on or trust government, banks, churches?
   What did they do during WW II?
    What are their worst and best memories of growing up?