Last Interview: A Practical Guide to Capturing Your Family's Stories Before They're Gone

The people who hold your family's stories are still here. That window will not stay open. The Last Interview is the only guide that takes you from a blank document and a feeling of urgent guilt to a completed, readable family history — using the proven HEIR Method: Harvest, Excavate, Illuminate, Record. Most approaches fail because they confuse recording with preserving, and intention with a plan. This book gives you a real system: how to conduct conversations that surface stories you never knew existed, how to find the meaning beneath the surface facts, and how to write it all in a way that people will actually want to read — for generations to come. For anyone who has ever thought I should do this before it's too late — this is where you start.