Creating a Family Archive

This lecture is designed to teach how to create your own family archive for future generations. Attendees will learn the basics of archival principles, digital preservation, storytelling and how to create a legacy using pictures, documents, and artifacts. The discussion is rooted in the idea that our lives matter and that we are all someone else’s ancestor. We will discuss knowing where to begin, learn the best location within the home to store documents, receive a presentation of archival enclosures, and get tips on organizing materials. We will discuss digital preservation and consider a few creative ideas of how to tell our family’s story.

Rhonda Chadwick is the author of Secrets from the Stacks: an archivist reveals how to store, digitize and preserve documents to create a family archive and leave a personal legacy.

Join us at GML on October 8th at 3:30

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