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.

Make a reservation by calling the St. George FamilySearch Center - 435-673-4591

HOW DO I BEGIN
The front desk will give you an ipad. Use your FamilySearch/LDS 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.

3.	Pick a Story Idea a.	If you don’t know where to begin, this is a great option to select. Several story ideas – vacations, family sayings, marriage, etc. – are offered as suggested story topics. Before coming to the Center to record your story, think about events in your life and answer these questions: i.	Who ii. What iii. When iv. Where v.	Why