Denise May Levenick

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About Denise May Levenick
"In every family, someone inherits 'The Stuff.'" After Denise May Levenick inherited a trunk filled with century-old letters, photographs, and memorabilia, she set out on a quest to learn how to safely preserve her family history treasures in a home archive. She discovered practical archival techniques for that anyone can use to safely organize and store family photos, documents, and artifacts.
Denise shares what she learned about working with family heirlooms and uncovering the stories they hold on her award-winning genealogy blog TheFamilyCurator.com and in her books How to Archive Family Keepsakes and How to Archive Family Photos.
Denise is a native Southern Californian, where she still lives surrounded by an every-growing archive of family treasures.
Denise shares what she learned about working with family heirlooms and uncovering the stories they hold on her award-winning genealogy blog TheFamilyCurator.com and in her books How to Archive Family Keepsakes and How to Archive Family Photos.
Denise is a native Southern Californian, where she still lives surrounded by an every-growing archive of family treasures.
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Titles By Denise May Levenick
How to Archive Family Photos: A Step-by-Step Guide to Organize and Share Your Photos Digitally
Apr 24, 2015
$16.99
Organize and enjoy your family's memories!
You've captured countless cherished family photos of babies' first steps, graduations, weddings, holidays, vacations, and priceless everyday moments on your smartphone or digital camera. Perhaps you've inherited a collection of heirloom family photographs, too. But now what?
How to Archive Family Photos is a practical how-to guide for organizing your growing digital photo collection, digitizing and preserving heirloom family photos, and sharing your treasured photos.
In this book, you'll find:
• Simple strategies to get your photos out of a smartphone or camera and into a safe storage space
• Easy methods to organize and back up your digital photos, including file-naming and tagging hints
• Achievable steps to digitize and preserve heirloom family photos
• Step-by-step workflows illustrating common photo organizing and digitizing scenarios
• Checklists for setting up your own photo organization system
• 25 photo projects to preserve, share, and enjoy your family photos
Whether you have boxes full of tintypes and black-and-white photographs, an ever-growing collection of digital photos, or a combination of the two, this book will help you rescue your images from the depths of hard drives and memory cards (or from the backs of closets) so that you can organize and preserve your family photo collection for future generations.
You've captured countless cherished family photos of babies' first steps, graduations, weddings, holidays, vacations, and priceless everyday moments on your smartphone or digital camera. Perhaps you've inherited a collection of heirloom family photographs, too. But now what?
How to Archive Family Photos is a practical how-to guide for organizing your growing digital photo collection, digitizing and preserving heirloom family photos, and sharing your treasured photos.
In this book, you'll find:
• Simple strategies to get your photos out of a smartphone or camera and into a safe storage space
• Easy methods to organize and back up your digital photos, including file-naming and tagging hints
• Achievable steps to digitize and preserve heirloom family photos
• Step-by-step workflows illustrating common photo organizing and digitizing scenarios
• Checklists for setting up your own photo organization system
• 25 photo projects to preserve, share, and enjoy your family photos
Whether you have boxes full of tintypes and black-and-white photographs, an ever-growing collection of digital photos, or a combination of the two, this book will help you rescue your images from the depths of hard drives and memory cards (or from the backs of closets) so that you can organize and preserve your family photo collection for future generations.
Other Formats:
Paperback
How to Archive Family Keepsakes: Learn How to Preserve Family Photos, Memorabilia and Genealogy Records
Aug 16, 2012
$15.99
Organize your family photos, heirlooms, and genealogy records
In every family someone ends up with Mom's and Dad's "stuff"a lifetime's worth of old family photos, papers, and memorabilia packed into boxes, trunks, and suitcases. This inheritance can be as much a burden as it is a blessing. How do you organize your loved one's estate in a way that honors your loved one, keeps the peace in your family and doesn't take over your home or life? How to Archive Family Keepsakes gives you step-by-step advice for how to organize, distribute and preserve family heirlooms.
You'll learn how to:
• Organize the boxes of your parents' stuff that you inherited
• Decide which family heirlooms to keep
• Donate items to museums, societies, and charities
• Protect and pass on keepsakes
• Create a catalog of family heirlooms
• Organize genealogy files and paperwork
• Digitize family history records
• Organize computer files to improve your research
Whether you have boxes filled with treasures or are helping a parent or relative downsize to a smaller home, this book will help you organize your family archive and preserve your family history for future generations.
In every family someone ends up with Mom's and Dad's "stuff"a lifetime's worth of old family photos, papers, and memorabilia packed into boxes, trunks, and suitcases. This inheritance can be as much a burden as it is a blessing. How do you organize your loved one's estate in a way that honors your loved one, keeps the peace in your family and doesn't take over your home or life? How to Archive Family Keepsakes gives you step-by-step advice for how to organize, distribute and preserve family heirlooms.
You'll learn how to:
• Organize the boxes of your parents' stuff that you inherited
• Decide which family heirlooms to keep
• Donate items to museums, societies, and charities
• Protect and pass on keepsakes
• Create a catalog of family heirlooms
• Organize genealogy files and paperwork
• Digitize family history records
• Organize computer files to improve your research
Whether you have boxes filled with treasures or are helping a parent or relative downsize to a smaller home, this book will help you organize your family archive and preserve your family history for future generations.
Other Formats:
Paperback
How to Organize Family History Paperwork: A Genealogist's Guide to Effective Record Keeping
Nov 30, 2012
$9.99
Family history research can quickly create mountains of paperwork. This book give you step-by-step instruction to effectively organize and digitize your genealogy research papers.You'll learn how to:
• create a personalized filing system to suit your genealogy research style and experience
• turn your computer into a top-notch filing clerk and research assistant by establishing a clear, consistent naming pattern for files and folders
• Scan old paper records and store them electronically to save space and make them easier to find
• make digital copies of original source documents
• organize your family history research to pass on to future generations
• create a personalized filing system to suit your genealogy research style and experience
• turn your computer into a top-notch filing clerk and research assistant by establishing a clear, consistent naming pattern for files and folders
• Scan old paper records and store them electronically to save space and make them easier to find
• make digital copies of original source documents
• organize your family history research to pass on to future generations
How to Organize Inherited Items: A Step-by-Step Guide for Dealing with Boxes of Your Parents' Stuff
Nov 30, 2012
$9.99
In every family, someone ends up with Mom's and Dad's "stuff" - a lifetime's worth of old family photos, papers, and memorabilia packed into boxes. This book gives step-by-step instructions for organizing inherited items in a way that honors the loved one while bringing peace to the rest of the family.You'll learn how to:
• Effectively sort and purge boxes of your parent's stuff that you inherited
• Decide which family heirlooms to keep
• Donate items to museums, societies, and charities
• Protect and pass on keepsakes
• Effectively sort and purge boxes of your parent's stuff that you inherited
• Decide which family heirlooms to keep
• Donate items to museums, societies, and charities
• Protect and pass on keepsakes
Organization Strategies for Genealogy Success: Family History Research Tactics to Get Better Results
Nov 30, 2012
$9.99
Effective family history researchers know that organization is the key to productivity. Organize the Three Rs - Research, Results and Records - to work smarter, not longer, so you can check off more items on your genealogy to-do list.This book offers step-by-step instruction to help you:
• Organize your genealogy research methods
• Organize your family history source citations
• Select the best software to make your genealogy research more effecient and effective
• Connect with fellow researches online to help find answers to your genealogy brickwalls
• Organize your genealogy research methods
• Organize your family history source citations
• Select the best software to make your genealogy research more effecient and effective
• Connect with fellow researches online to help find answers to your genealogy brickwalls
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