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*Describe it and you feelings about it.When did the opposite sex start to become important to you?  
*Describe it and you feelings about it.When did the opposite sex start to become important to you?  
*When was your first date and with who?  
*When was your first date and with who?  
*Describe your dating activities as a teenager - movies, sporting events, dances, etc.How were some of the people you dated and what has happened to them?  
*Describe your dating activities as a teenager - movies, sporting events, dances, etc.
*How were some of the people you dated and what has happened to them?  
*When did you learn to drive?  
*When did you learn to drive?  
*Whose car did you use to learn to drive?  
*Whose car did you use to learn to drive?  
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*Had you talked about what kind of family you wanted before you got married?  
*Had you talked about what kind of family you wanted before you got married?  
*When did you decide it was time to start having children?  
*When did you decide it was time to start having children?  
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=== Beginnings of Family Life  ===
=== Beginnings of Family Life  ===


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*How did your spouse treat you on your fiftieth birthday?  
*How did your spouse treat you on your fiftieth birthday?  
*How did you treat your spouse on his of her fiftieth birthday?  
*How did you treat your spouse on his of her fiftieth birthday?  
*Describe you family at age fifty.Describe the relationship with your spouse.Describe what your children are now doing and their families if they have one.Describe them physically and your impressions of their character and where they seem to be headed in life.What was your relationship with each one?  
*Describe you family at age fifty.
*Describe the events as you saw each of your children were going through the courting process.What did you go through emotionally?  
*Describe the relationship with your spouse.
*Describe their weddings and your feelings as you saw each of them leave to start there own families.Describe any grandchildren you may have had by this time?  
*Describe what your children are now doing and their families if they have one.
*Describe them physically and your impressions of their character and where they seem to be headed in life.
*What was your relationship with each one?  
*Describe the events as you saw each of your children were going through the courting process.
*What did you go through emotionally?  
*Describe their weddings and your feelings as you saw each of them leave to start there own families.
*Describe any grandchildren you may have had by this time?  
*Name each one, who there parents were and where you were when each was born.  
*Name each one, who there parents were and where you were when each was born.  
*How did you feel when you heard you were a grandfather?  
*How did you feel when you heard you were a grandfather?  
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*Are you surprised by what you see happening around you locally and internationally now a days?  
*Are you surprised by what you see happening around you locally and internationally now a days?  
*Do you see world events seeming to repeat themselves only with different actors?  
*Do you see world events seeming to repeat themselves only with different actors?  
*If you went on a mission with your spouse, use the questions listed under MISSION FIELD.
*If you became a Temple Worker, what Temple did you work in?
*Any experiences you want to relate in relation to your service in the Temple?
*Did you find yourself becoming more interested in your ancestors now?  
*Did you find yourself becoming more interested in your ancestors now?  
*Did you ever do any genealogical research over the years?  
*Did you ever do any genealogical research over the years?  
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=== Questions for a Topical Personal History  ===
=== Questions for a Topical Personal History  ===


''I once asked a friend what he thought about a particular event and said he did not know as yet because he had not written about it.''(C.C. Smith)  
''I once asked a friend what he thought about a particular event and said he did not know as yet because he had not written about it. ''(C.C. Smith)  


<br><br>If you would rather write about topics rather than a narrative, here are a few topics you might consider writing on. These will give the reader great insights to your character and thinking processes. In addition, you will learn things about yourself that you may not have known.  
<br><br>If you would rather write about topics rather than a narrative, here are a few topics you might consider writing on. These will give the reader great insights to your character and thinking processes. In addition, you will learn things about yourself that you may not have known.