Family History Evening

The Family History Game™

The Family History Game™ can be played with one or more people. It encourages people to explore their thoughts, opinions, experiences, aspirations, and feelings. Cut the following questions/inquiries into strips and put the strips of paper into a container in the middle of the group. One person picks a paper, reads and responds to the question/inquiry, then picks one other person to answer the same question. The second person will be the next to select a paper, respond to the question/inquiry written on it, and select another person to answer the question/inquiry written on the paper they chose. When played in a group, persons are encouraged to resist being judgmental or confrontational in regards to others’ responses/“answers”. Part of the “magic” of this game is that it gives people an opportunity to explore their feelings/opinions and experiences. The concept I like to keep in mind is that opinions can and do change, especially when people have a chance to hear the perspectives of others. Let others give their responses without the fear of being laughed at, put down, or without feeling a need to defend their opinion/response. Accept responses without judgment. Participants are encouraged to elaborate on, explain, or give details along with their responses.

  1. Tell about the best friend you had when growing up.
  2. Tell about your most interesting/strangest ancestor.
  3. Tell about a memory of a grandparent.
  4. Tell about your favorite vacation memory.
  5. Describe your dream vacation.
  6. What part of your life would you like to experience over again?
  7. Where do you feel most secure?
  8. If you were to start a business, what would your product be?
  9. What city would you most like to live in?
  10. What language would you like to be able to speak?
  11. What is your hobby?
  12. What do you like most, the mountains or the ocean?
  13. What time of year do you like most?
  14. What time of day do you most like?
  15. What is your favorite holiday?
  16. Where would you like to live for one year?
  17. What part would you like to play in a movie?
  18. What type of book do you most like to read?
  19. Describe the plot of the movie you would star in?
  20. What is your favorite kind of music?
  21. At what age do you think it is best to marry?
  22. What university would you like to attend?
  23. What career best suits your personality and skills?
  24. What kind of animal would you like to be for a day?
  25. What event in the Olympics would you like to compete in?
  26. What is your favorite fruit?
  27. What one thing would you change in the world?
  28. How would you have created humans differently than they are?
  29. What activity is most therapeutic for you?
  30. What act is most worthwhile in life?
  31. What does a regular day in your life consist of?
  32. Describe an ideal way to spend the day.
  33. What do you fear most?
  34. What do you hate most?
  35. What do you love most?
  36. What is the worst thing that could happen to you?
  37. What handicap could you handle most? Least?
  38. What time period in history would you like to have lived?
  39. Tell about your father.
  40. Tell about your mother.
  41. What is your favorite sport to participate in? Watch?
  42. What is your favorite meal?
  43. What is your favorite dessert?
  44. Where do you like to go to be alone?
  45. What was your favorite toy when you were young?
  46. What is your favorite mode of transportation?
  47. Describe your dream house.
  48. What school subject do you do best in? Favorite?
  49. What type of person do other people perceive you as?
  50. Do you have a quiet personality or a loud one?
  51. Who is your idol?
  52. Who is your hero?
  53. Who was your idol when you were young?
  54. Who were the movie stars when you were young?
  55. Describe yourself.
  56. Describe the kind of person you want to become.
  57. What one thing are you sure you could convince another person of?
  58. What are you most committed to?
  59. What one thing would you change about yourself?
  60. What three things would you like to accomplish if you had six months to live?
  61. What about yourself are you most sensitive or self conscious?
  62. What are you really good at?
  63. Who has had the greatest influence in your life? In what way?
  64. What makes you unique from other people?
  65. What do you want to be remembered for?
  66. What person in history would you like to trade places with?
  67. What is your latest, greatest accomplishment?
  68. Do you have few interests, or many? What are your interests?
  69. Would you describe yourself as a “city” person or a “country” person?
  70. What person in history would you want as your good friend?
  71. Tell about the most interesting or exciting thing you have experienced.
  72. What are the three most important things you do each day?
  73. Which subject is most sensitive for you to discuss: money, politics, or religion?
  74. What, or who has most affected your philosophy of life?
  75. Name and describe your talents or gifts.
  76. What three things would you defend with your life?
  77. If you were given three wishes, what would you wish for?
  78. Tell of the happiest day of your life.
  79. What three things do you love most?
  80. What three things do you dislike most?
  81. What advice for the future would you offer your child on their wedding day?
  82. What about yourself are you most confident?
  83. What about yourself are you most insecure?
  84. How well do you resolve challenges in your life?
  85. What is the greatest value that guides you in your life?
  86. What is the most sacred thing you know of?
  87. What leisure activity do you like most?
  88. What event in the last year stands out most to you?
  89. What is most worth living for?
  90. What saying would you like on your grave marker?
  91. What is the most beautiful thing you have seen?

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