St. George Utah FamilySearch Center/Story Recording Booths

Everyone has a story. Let us help you record your story!
The St. George FamilySearch Center has three story recording booths to assist you in recording your personal or family story. Two booths accommodate a single story teller and one booth accommodates a group or family.

 Reserve a Story Booth by calling the St. George FamilySearch Center - 435-673-4591

HOW TO PREPARE BEFORE COMING TO RECORD YOUR STORY
Before coming to the Center to record your story, think about and write some notes about events in your life. This article may be helpful in giving you further suggestions: How to Prepare to Record Your Story

Always consider these questions: Who? What? When? Where? Why?

HOW DO I BEGIN
The front desk will give you an ipad. Use your FamilySearch Account to log into the ipad. You then dock the ipad with the recording booth docking station and a prepared video narrator will begin to walk you through various ways to begin your story recording.

Each individual story recording is restricted to a maximum of 10 minutes. However, you can continue to record 10-minute story segments until your scheduled time is up.

The pre-recorded narrator directed options for recording your story are: The Interview, Share an Image, and Pick a Story Idea.

The Interview

 * When you select the “Be Interviewed” option, the narrator will ask you a series of questions about your life, your family memories, people you know and others questions. You simply answer these questions.  Your responses and a video of you answering the questions is prepared and a link is sent to you. ???? how and when

Share an image

 * Talking about a photograph image is a great way to spark a story and expand to other stories. You will be asked to send a picture to the interview via text messaging.  Everyone in the group will be able to see the picture and answer some pre-recorded questions to get started.  After about three questions you are on your own to talk about the picture and share a story thoughts that come to mind.  Your story and a video of you sharing these memories will be sent to you as a link in an e-mail.

Pick a Story Idea

 * If you don’t know where to begin, this is a great option. Several story ideas are presented such as, vacations, family sayings, engagement stories, and many more.  You select one of the story ideas and a series of pre-recorded questions are presented for you to answer. Your story and a video of you sharing these memories will be sent to you as a link in an e-mail.


 * Sample booklet: LIFE IS A STORY (Feb 2020)

Everyone has a story. Record your story today to give to your posterity tomorrow!



 * Maintained by Elder Hales
 * Last updated: 2/14/2020