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Organizing and Preserving Your Heirloom Documents Paperback – August 1, 2002

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Genealogists and non-genealogists alike inherit diaries, memoirs, letters, papers, or memorabilia from their relatives and ancestors. This book shows readers how to safely collect, preserve, and even publish some of these treasured heirlooms.

Organizing and Preserving Your Heirloom Documents is filled with practical, readable, guidelines, useful tips, and ideas on how to: locate, organize, and transcribe family documents; care for fragile, older papers; annotate and illustrate documents; conduct historical research; construct a documentary volume; publish heirloom documents.

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238 pages
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English
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Betterway Books
Publication date

August 1, 2002
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8.25 x 0.75 x 11 inches
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9781558705975
ISBN-13

978-1558705975
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Sturdevant, author of Bringing Your Family History to Life through Social History (2000), provides tips and guidelines tailored to amateur genealogists interested in organizing and perhaps even publishing precious family documents. After locating and identifying existing family documents, it is imperative to take necessary steps to preserve them. New documents may be created by writing memoirs, keeping a journal, or conducting oral interviews. Detailed instructions on classifying, categorizing, transcribing, editing, annotating, and illustrating a variety of sources and documents are also included. Family historians will welcome this treasure trove of practical information. Margaret Flanagan
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About the Author

Katherine Scott Sturdevant is an historian, historical editor, and college history professor. She is the author of Bringing Your Family History to Life through Social History. Katherine lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 155870597X
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Betterway Books; 1st edition (August 1, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 238 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781558705975
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1558705975
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.6 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.25 x 0.75 x 11 inches

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Nancy Edwards

Family Geneology Resource

Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2019

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This is very detailed and gives lots of hints on organizing and preserving family history, including artifacts, letters and photos. There are newer computer programs to organize since this was published, but they can be researched as you work. Includes photos.

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rescueAdog

Wonderful information

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2014

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This was such a big help to me. I was blessed to be left with over 20 boxes of documents, letters, postcards and photos, and all of these are mentioned on how to preserve. Also how to put in order, write a family history or book, and what all to include. I can now finish my book. Helpful forms and places to contact for further assistance or research, and how to start your genealogy. Great for those just starting or experts.

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Michael K. Smith

Good introduction to archival genealogy

Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2002

The author is a history professor, historical editor, and the author of _Bringing Your Family History to Life through Social History_, and her background is obvious in the subjects this book covers: Locating and preserving family archival documents, organizing a documentary project, the professional fundamentals of transcribing, editing, and annotating documents, how to dispose of documents when your project is complete (stick them in a drawer or place them in a repository for the use of others?), and publishing the resulting book. The style is smooth and engrossing (more so, admittedly, if the reader is predisposed to reading archival materials), and the advice is generally pretty good. There are interesting digressions into such subjects as dealing with your ancestors' words on topics that we today would regard as socially offensive. As in most Betterway publications, tips, notes, reminders, and warnings are emphasized throughout, and a selection of useful forms is included. The bibliography is lengthy and detailed and there's also a useful list of organizations, specialty publishers, and suppliers of archival products. However, I could wish that the index were more analytical: "Archives and archivists" includes ten rather broad locators with no subheadings, which is not very friendly to the user.

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Karen of Yerington

Not what I expected!!

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2003

I was hoping for a book which would give detailed instructions on how to preserve my old documents and photos. This book is more of how to write and publish a book using your old documents, diaries, photos, etc. I have no doubt that the author is brilliant, but this book did not cover what I needed to learn.

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