Ester DiNardo remembers the final night she and her daughter Marisa spent together. Marisa DiNardo worked in the World Trade Center, where she was killed on September 11, 2001.

Recorded in New York, NY

Marvin Goldstein (L), who fell out of a window of his family's apartment when he was 3 years old, tells his son, Eric (R), how he survived.

Recorded in New York, NY

97-year-old Willis Cressman, who survived the Bath School disaster of 1927, with Johanna Cushman-Balzer, the daughter of his younger sister, Wilma, who was also at the school that day.

Recorded in DeWitt, MI

91-year-old Donald Huffman talks about surviving the Bath School disaster of 1927.

For images from the disaster, click here.

Recorded in Cedar Springs, MI

Nancy Wright tells her son, JD, about her mother, Frances Ericksen.

Recorded in Gainesville, FL

Gus Hernandez (R) talks about how he met Siddiqi Hansoti (L), owner of the El Dorado Motel in Salinas, CA, after losing his house to foreclosure.

Recorded in Salinas, CA

John Hope Franklin, the late scholar of African American history, tells his son, John, about being a Boy Scout during the 1920s.

Recorded in Tulsa, OK

Retired newspaperman Ed Pierce talks to his grandson, Scott, and his daughter, Rebecca, about working as managing editor of the Miami News.

Recorded in Gainesville, FL

George Edwardson tells his cousin, Doreen Simmonds, about watching his grandfather translate the New Testament into Inupiaq, their native language.

Recorded in Anchorage, AK

PJ Goetz tells her son, Sam, about how she met his father.

Recorded in Tampa, FL