Posts about the best ways to care for, preserve, interpret, and use family photos & records in your genealogy research.
Here are some tips for interviewing relatives for family history.The suggestions here come from my own professional experience, and from colleagues at the Society of California Archivists and the Oral History Association. Holiday gatherings may not [...]
If you have some mysterious photos, try dating family photos from clothing, hairstyles and jewelry. As someone who named her blog after a 1920s line of dresses, I have some favorite resources on this topic. [...]
Here are five simple steps to preserve family photos that you can do today. I managed archival collections in public and academic libraries for several decades. When people would arrive at the archives with [...]
From my presentation at RootsTech 2018, here are Three Tips for Organizing Genealogy Research Files. Genealogists create lots of digital files in the course of their research. Some are downloads, some are scans of [...]
