I should know her better. I don't. Now, I'm going to her house every 2 weeks. I've learned about her parents and grandparents so far. The plan behind the book is so her descendants (and thus my future grandkids) can hear hear thoughts in the year 2100.

That’s what’s up wish my grandma was still around

That’s really sweet. get a cheap audio recorder they use for meetings or use your phone too.

That's dope bro good luck very heartfelt and sweet

I keep voice recording of all the people who meant something to me…

I already have done 2 meetings, 2 hours each. Recorded them, massive work transcribing them and ordering the information but it's quite worth it

The one time them AI tools can help ya out transcribe

I have one for it! happyscribe, but the interviews are in my native language which is already quite difficult for the a.i. to do properly, and on top of that we live in a region where the dialect is very differnt that it can't really be understood by people outside of the region so the a.i. is like "wtf am I hearing"

still it does transcribe about half of it correctly. But I do have to go through it myself to translate and correct etc. what is handy however is asking the a.i. to put text chronological without messing with the text

Any interesting stories?

I was gonna say sumthin outta pocket but imma respect her sanctity

good idea

Her 80 year old grandpa (so my great-great-grandpa), after his son's death (who had essentially ran the farm for him) cried and said "why can it never be perfect" I thought it was quite moving in a strange way, he was a very crude, unsatisfied man who essentially screwed over a lot of his family. In that moment maybe he realized, or maybe he was still only thinking of himself

my grandma doesnt remember anything. my mom plays her music from back in the day and sometimes gets glimpses of memories here n there.

what no one tells you about alzhemiers is it comes with lots of anger. theyll get angry on a whim and say someone stole all their money, or that their husband ran away with a mistress. lots of confusion and anger

heartbreaking

I wish I had some grandparents still

the good news is you adapt fast, my mom and uncle just laugh and reassure her when she gets mad. they change the subject fast and all is ok again.

but im sure it was tough on them seeing her like that when it first started

This is a cool idea op

Great idea
I remember still learning new things about my grandparents the last time i talked to them. Wish i had more time.

Make sure you get some recipes too

Went for 3rd interview. This time I thought "don't need a backup recording" of course my recording glitched whatever imma write down what I remember