Community Archives - Permanent.org https://www.permanent.org/blog/category/community/ Nonprofit. Secure. Digital Archives. Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:36:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.permanent.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cropped-Permanent-Icon-512-32x32.png Community Archives - Permanent.org https://www.permanent.org/blog/category/community/ 32 32 Whose Data Is It, Anyway? How Permanent.org Stands Apart https://www.permanent.org/blog/how-permanent-org-stands-apart/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/how-permanent-org-stands-apart/#respond Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:41:01 +0000 https://www.permanent.org/?p=8197 As we celebrate Love Your Data Week, take a moment to reflect on how you’re making informed decisions to preserve and protect your digital legacy.

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/how-permanent-org-stands-apart/feed/ 0 Connecting the Branches of the Family Tree https://www.permanent.org/blog/connecting-the-family-tree/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/connecting-the-family-tree/#respond Mon, 05 Aug 2024 14:09:24 +0000 https://www.permanent.org/?p=7307 For this month’s spotlight, we’re excited to feature the Engh/Jensen/Johnson/Nelsen Archive, created by family historian Cliff Johnson. Cliff’s vision was to capture the rich stories of the four branches of his family tree, from the mid-1800s to the present day. By bringing these stories together in one archive, Cliff has created a beautiful tapestry of family history. The photos included in this blog post offer a glimpse into the treasures he has preserved. Cliff’s work is a great example of how you can display, honor, and share your family history using our platform. Like many family historians, Cliff found himself with a large collection of photos inherited from his grandparents. It can be overwhelming to ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/connecting-the-family-tree/feed/ 0 The King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center Archive https://www.permanent.org/blog/the-king-kamehameha-v-judiciary-history-center-archive/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/the-king-kamehameha-v-judiciary-history-center-archive/#respond Mon, 01 Jul 2024 19:32:56 +0000 https://dev.permanent.org/blog/the-king-kamehameha-v-judiciary-history-center-archive/ This month, we are delighted to announce the public unveiling of the King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center Archive. As one of our Byte4Byte partners, the Center has worked tirelessly to make their collections accessible through a digital archive on Permanent. Keep reading to learn about the creation and value of this archive, which holds significant educational and historical benefit for current and future generations. Throughout this blog, you will find items from the Center’s collection that capture its rich history.  We spoke with Brieanah Gouveia, the Curator of Collections & Programs, who shared with us some information about the Center and their collections on Permanent. She explains that the collection houses records “from the ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/the-king-kamehameha-v-judiciary-history-center-archive/feed/ 0 The Ron Vincent Archive https://www.permanent.org/blog/the-ron-vincent-archive/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/the-ron-vincent-archive/#respond Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:31:17 +0000 https://dev.permanent.org/blog/the-ron-vincent-archive/ In our last blog post, you saw how publishing your materials in our Permanent Public Gallery helps your loved ones remember you for who you are. Public archives allow you to author your story, in your own words, in a way that reflects the legacy you wish to leave behind. Beyond that, you can also honor the memories of your loved ones by curating a public archive that captures their life’s joys and triumphs.  “The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.” ~Czesław Miłosz Permanent member Ron Vincent has used his public archive to carry forth the memory of his late wife, Susie. Ron explains that ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/the-ron-vincent-archive/feed/ 0 Share Your Unique Story in the Permanent Public Gallery https://www.permanent.org/blog/share-your-unique-story-in-the-permanent-public-gallery/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/share-your-unique-story-in-the-permanent-public-gallery/#respond Tue, 14 May 2024 14:26:00 +0000 https://dev.permanent.org/?p=6826 Publishing materials helps ensure that you are remembered for who you are. During March of 2024 we ran the first cohort of our Legacy Lab program. The program was designed to help our members get started by giving them step-by-step instructions on how to tell a single story using our platform, resulting in several new public archives in the Permanent Public Gallery. The Permanent Public Gallery is how we celebrate the power of personal stories and the impact they can have on future generations. The Permanent Gallery is our mission realized, as the rich collection of public archives creates numerous opportunities for people to educate themselves and learn about our broad historical past. When you ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/share-your-unique-story-in-the-permanent-public-gallery/feed/ 0 Public Archive Spotlight: The I Defend Rights – Memria x Norwegian Human Rights Fund Archive https://www.permanent.org/blog/i-defend-rights-archive-spotlight/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/i-defend-rights-archive-spotlight/#respond Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:35:06 +0000 https://www.permanent.org/?p=6135 All people have a legacy that deserves to be preserved. In other words, we believe it is an essential human right to be able to preserve your legacy. A single story from someone who cares can inspire others to leave the world a better place. One such example of this is the “The I Defend Rights – Memria x Norwegian Human Rights Fund Archive” in our public gallery. Leveraging oral histories recorded on Memria.org, the Norwegian Human Rights Fund’s archive on Permanent acts as a place to store the stories and testimonies of those involved in making the world a better place through their defense of human rights.  According to their website, the fund “works ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/i-defend-rights-archive-spotlight/feed/ 0 The Importance of and Opportunities for Community Archiving on Permanent https://www.permanent.org/blog/communityarchiving/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/communityarchiving/#respond Mon, 11 Mar 2024 21:48:36 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=6107 Permanent supports community archiving through our Byte4Byte granting program, which allows our grantees and partners to secure 100GB of cloud storage and intern support for their unique projects and efforts in this area.

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/communityarchiving/feed/ 0 Public Archive Spotlight: The Art+Feminism Archive https://www.permanent.org/blog/public-archive-spotlight-the-artfeminism-archive/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/public-archive-spotlight-the-artfeminism-archive/#respond Wed, 06 Mar 2024 14:11:02 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=6077 When it comes to whose and which stories have been captured by the historical narrative, women have been disproportionately left out. A 2018 survey from Wikipedia across 12 different language versions found that 90% of the respondents reported their gender as male with just 8.8% identifying as female and 1% as other. In addition, a 2021 study found that although biographies of women only make up 17% of those on Wikipedia, 41% of the biographies nominated for deletion were about women. This gender bias affects the creation and content of the pages on Wikipedia, with some non-male participants feeling like there is a barrier to participating due to factors such as gatekeeping, harassment, and frequent ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/public-archive-spotlight-the-artfeminism-archive/feed/ 0 Public Archive Spotlight: The Cohen-Snyder Family Archive https://www.permanent.org/blog/public-archive-spotlight-the-cohen-snyder-family-archive/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/public-archive-spotlight-the-cohen-snyder-family-archive/#respond Thu, 08 Feb 2024 15:12:56 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=5990 In 1888, at the age of eighteen, Micheal Cohen came to America. He established himself in New York City and soon sent for his wife, Freida, to bring her from Minsk to Manhattan. Together they would have eight children. Micheal was Jewish and spoke Yiddish as his first language. He was conscripted into the Russian Army, but felt he had “little desire to serve a country that segregated and discriminated against his faith.” Deciding then to leave Russia for America, he sought work in the fashion industry, eventually finding success alongside several of his sons. One of Micheal and Freida’s daughters, Rose, would marry shoe merchant Morris Snyder —also a child of Jewish immigrants from ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/public-archive-spotlight-the-cohen-snyder-family-archive/feed/ 0 Public Archive Spotlight: The Unknown Faces Archive https://www.permanent.org/blog/public-archive-spotlight-the-unknown-faces-archive/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/public-archive-spotlight-the-unknown-faces-archive/#respond Wed, 17 Jan 2024 15:17:24 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=5922 Not everyone has equal access to preserving their legacy In our recent podcast episode with our Executive Director, Robert Friedman, we discussed how it has historically been challenging for people to ensure their legacy lives on. At Permanent, we believe that all people leave a legacy that deserves to be preserved, yet it is plain to see that this doesn’t always happen. When selecting this month’s spotlight archive, we came across the Unknown Faces Archive which operates out of the Cheney Historical Museum and is composed of images of “unknown people, families, and groups.” By making a public archive, they hope that visitors will be able to reconnect the people in the photos with their ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/public-archive-spotlight-the-unknown-faces-archive/feed/ 0 Public Archive Spotlight: The Chas. E Martin Archive  https://www.permanent.org/blog/public-archive-spotlight-the-chas-e-martin-archive/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/public-archive-spotlight-the-chas-e-martin-archive/#respond Wed, 13 Dec 2023 18:48:59 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=5875 In a world that moves at breakneck speed, it’s easy to lose touch with our roots, the stories that bind us, and the people who shaped our lineage. The holiday season is the perfect time to gather your friends and family together to celebrate the traditions from the past that you’ve carried into the future. Public archives on Permanent make it easy to stay tethered to your family’s rich history, both past and present. This season, we’d like to shine a spotlight on the Chas. E. Martin Archive which acts as a hub for Chas.’s family to access photos of cherished faces and moments from the past. An Enduring Family Story “Family is everything. People ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/public-archive-spotlight-the-chas-e-martin-archive/feed/ 0 Public Archive Spotlight: The Ralph Lonon Sanford World War I Postcard Archive https://www.permanent.org/blog/public-archive-spotlight-the-ralph-lonon-sanford-world-war-i-postcard-archive/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/public-archive-spotlight-the-ralph-lonon-sanford-world-war-i-postcard-archive/#respond Wed, 08 Nov 2023 18:02:16 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=5723 This Veterans Day, we’d like to spotlight a special archive that captures the experiences of a WWI medic through postcards. Created by Greg Martin in honor of his wife’s grandfather, The Ralph Lonon Sanford World War I Postcard Archive features historic images from the war and messages that he wrote home, all of which can be used to give people a sense of what that period of was like.

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/public-archive-spotlight-the-ralph-lonon-sanford-world-war-i-postcard-archive/feed/ 0 Public Archive Spotlight: The Talevi Archive https://www.permanent.org/blog/talevi-archive-spotlight/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/talevi-archive-spotlight/#respond Wed, 11 Oct 2023 21:04:09 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=5640 Announcing our first public archive spotlight Here at Permanent, we are continually inspired by the public archives we see our community create. They help remind us of the historical and educational value that the archives will have for generations to come. To celebrate the hard work that our members put into these archives, we’d like to announce our first ever public archive spotlight featuring The Talevi Archive. In the age of digital transformation, preserving family memories has taken on a new form. Where before memories were found in dusty photo albums or in stacks of aging papers, these cherished moments can now find a home on Permanent. One shining example of this is “The Talevi ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/talevi-archive-spotlight/feed/ 0 Staff Spotlight: Han Pham https://www.permanent.org/blog/staff-spotlight-han-pham/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/staff-spotlight-han-pham/#respond Thu, 24 Aug 2023 14:21:11 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=5558 We’re taking a moment to shine a spotlight on Han Pham, our Member Journey Coordinator. This post is co-written by Kaitlyn Jarnagin, our Member Success Manager, and Han. Kaitlyn Jarnagin: I am excited to introduce our new Member Journey Coordinator, Han Pham. Over the past year, the Permanent team has been working on improving new member onboarding and user experience. We discovered that although new members are interested in Permanent.org and eager to sign up, they sometimes have a hard time getting started with building their archive. We created the Member Journey Coordinator role to provide additional support for our new members and those facing unique challenges in their projects on Permanent. We hope to ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/staff-spotlight-han-pham/feed/ 0 Building Towards a Sustainable Future https://www.permanent.org/blog/building-towards-a-sustainable-future/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/building-towards-a-sustainable-future/#respond Mon, 21 Aug 2023 22:18:08 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=5539 Our mission is to preserve and provide perpetual access to the digital legacy of all people for the historical and educational benefit of future generations. Providing perpetual access is a commitment that requires a stable, reliable and trustworthy steward to facilitate that access.

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/building-towards-a-sustainable-future/feed/ 0 Staff Spotlight: Emily Sienkiewicz https://www.permanent.org/blog/staff-spotlight-emily-sienkiewicz/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/staff-spotlight-emily-sienkiewicz/#respond Thu, 27 Jul 2023 14:55:05 +0000 https://www.permanent.org/?p=5448 We’re taking a moment to shine a spotlight on Emily Sienkiewicz, our Communications Specialist.

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/hello-mastodon-goodbye-twitter/feed/ 0 Sharing & Connecting Over Family Treasures with Lynn Busath https://www.permanent.org/blog/familytreasures/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/familytreasures/#respond Wed, 14 Dec 2022 16:39:29 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=4939 We are excited to shine the community spotlight on Lynn Busath, genealogist and creator of the Paxman - Moody Archive on Permanent.

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/familytreasures/feed/ 0 Celebrating & Honoring Indigenous Legacies & History with Rudy De La Cruz, Jr. https://www.permanent.org/blog/aitscm/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/aitscm/#respond Tue, 15 Nov 2022 16:31:53 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=4897 We are delighted to shine a community spotlight on one of our recent Byte4Byte grantees this month, Rudy De La Cruz, Jr., Director of the Texas Heritage Project of AITSCM.

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/aitscm/feed/ 0 Writing Software That is Built to Last https://www.permanent.org/blog/writing-software-that-is-built-to-last/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/writing-software-that-is-built-to-last/#respond Wed, 19 Oct 2022 17:27:31 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=4877 We’re taking a moment to shine a spotlight on Liam Lloyd, our Senior Software Engineer.

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/writing-software-that-is-built-to-last/feed/ 0 Making Permanent Pretty and Performant https://www.permanent.org/blog/making-permanent-pretty-and-performant/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/making-permanent-pretty-and-performant/#respond Thu, 18 Aug 2022 19:15:27 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=4791 We’re taking a moment to shine a spotlight on Natalie Martin, our Front-End Engineer. This post is co-written by Cecilia Krum, our Director of Engineering, and Natalie. Cecilia: Natalie Martin joined Permanent almost a year and a half ago with the intent to make the part of the app that you see in your web browser (permanent.org) better. In that time she has improved the security and reliability of Permanent, added new features, and open sourced the web application. When Natalie and I first talked about her joining Permanent, it was clear that she had strong front-end development skills and would be a phenomenal addition to the team. She had already been thinking about preservation in ...

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