A non-profit group is making sure that people do use their smartphones this Thanksgiving, but it is for a great cause. StoryCorps launched "The Great Thanksgiving Listen" project, which aims to collect stories from grandparents and the elderly about their lives when they were younger.

"With The Great Thanksgiving Listen, StoryCorps hopes to capture the rich diversity of a generation of American lives," said StoryCorps marketing and communications director Colleen J. Ross, via NBC News. "As always, we are especially committed to honoring those whose stories might otherwise be omitted from the historical record, and to reminding people, through the collection of voices we will document, that every life matters equally and infinitely."

Using an app that can be downloaded for both iOS and Android, kids can interview their grandparents this Thanksgiving, record the conversation and then upload it. The data will then be archived at the Library of Congress, according to Mashable.

StoryCorps suggests to ask grandparents about the place where they grew up, their school, marriage and dating during their time, family traditions, and perhaps questions like these:

"Do you know the story of why and how our ancestors came to this country?"

"Who is the most important person in your life?"

"Of what are you most proud?"

"How would you like to be remembered?"

"We want to remind people of how much they matter, and that the person who's listening cares," said StoryCorps founder and president Dave Isay, via the New York Times.

Isay was inspired to do this project based on his own experience. "I interviewed my dad a bunch of years ago. He died very suddenly, and that was the night the rubber hit the road. That recording would be the way my kids got to know this man who was this towering figure in my life."

StoryCorps already collected more than 65,000 interviews, but it would like to double this over the long holiday weekend.

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