Grandmother Interview Research Paper

The interview I had with my grandmother was extremely inspirational and shed light on some of the experiences my grandmother went through that I never knew about. Before the interview, I had some sort of an idea of what her life was like due to the countless stories that my mother would tell me about my grandmother but, it wasn’t until I was able to sit down face-to-face with my grandmother that I finally understood what that time in her life was like. For example, when my grandmother lied about having experience using a sewing machine; I didn’t know that in Mexico her family was too poor to even come across a sewing machine to begin with. Another example is how, President Ronald Reagan gave the illegal immigrants at that time amnesty, which allowed my grandmother and the rest of the family, which includes my mother, to gain citizenship in the United States. Had it not been for President Ronald Reagan, my mother could have possibly been deported and I would have never been born a U.S citizen. Before the interview, I just figured that the family had to go through the process like anyone else does currently, I didn’t know President Reagan played such a

For the most part, I figured the information acquired during these studies was pretty cut and dry; you ask a question and you get an answer and that was it. Not once did I ever think about how nerve racking and what the process of actually sitting down and talking to a person about possibly a traumatic portion of their life was like. Thankfully, I did take it upon myself to research interview tips, principles and practices of oral history which helped me conduct the interview with my grandmother a lot smoother. Needless to say, I have gained a tremendous amount of respect to those who take the time to conduct these type of interviews and studies in order for us to read and learn from in the