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Frequently
Asked Questions
Note: This project has now been completed.
Thanks for joining us! The information below
remains as a reference, in case anyone is
interested in how the program was set up.
Sign up to be an
interviewer
Nominate
someone (or yourself) to be an interviewee
Biographical Information Data Collection
Form
If you
have questions, please
contact the
Heritage Team.
Q: What is “Fremont
Stories”?
As part of our
year-long celebration, we will be
interviewing residents of Fremont to create
an Oral History.
The "Fremont Stories" project seeks to
highlight the many faces of Fremont.
Being a merger of five former small towns
into a single community with various ethnic,
socio-economic and age differences, Fremont
residents will learn more about what this
community was like, how it has changed, and
begin to discuss their hopes for the future.
We will collect personal stories from people
in the community, including new immigrants
and longtime residents, through oral history
interviews, to document the social history
of Fremont, before and after is was
incorporated. This project will include the
six areas of Fremont (Irvington, Niles,
Centerville, Mission San Jose, Warm Springs
and the Northern Plain from early 1900’s to
today.
Q:
How will the stories
be presented to the community?
“Fremont Stories” will be presented to the
community through multimedia displays at the
Fremont 50th Anniversary Celebration called
"Celebrate Fremont @ the Park" on September
9-10, 2006.
Q:
How can I get
involved?
As part of Fremont’s 50th Anniversary
Celebration, we are offering a FREE Oral
History Interviewer Workshop to train local
residents as interviewers. Everyone has a
story to bring Fremont history alive. You,
as an interviewer or interviewee, can help
us capture these stories!
If you are
interested in participating as an
interviewee, or know someone that would make
a good interview participant, please
submit our
nomination form. Oral History
interviewees may be long-time Fremont
residents, or may have recently made Fremont
their home. We are interested in capturing
all facets of our community, and its growth
since the early days.
Q:
When is the next
interviewer training?
We held an
interviewer training session on November 12.
Check back for announcements of future
training sessions.
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