“What's one story from a grandparent's life that you want your child to inherit?”

Why this question

Tell it here, while you can still check the details with the person it happened to.

Capturing it in voice

• ·Don't script it. The ums, the tangents, the half-finished sentences — that's what their voice actually sounds like right now.
• ·Thirty seconds is plenty. A short answer you actually record beats a long one you keep meaning to.
• ·Say the date and their age out loud at the start. In ten years that one detail will do half the work.

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