Family Archive Archives - Permanent.org https://www.permanent.org/blog/tag/family-archive/ Nonprofit. Secure. Digital Archives. Wed, 04 Oct 2023 21:48:16 +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 Family Archive Archives - Permanent.org https://www.permanent.org/blog/tag/family-archive/ 32 32 Personal Archiving and Prepping to Digitize Your Personal Papers, Photos, and Other Stuff https://www.permanent.org/events/personal-archiving-and-prepping-to-digitize-your-personal-papers-photos-and-other-stuff/ Wed, 04 Oct 2023 21:48:16 +0000 https://permanent.org/?post_type=mec-events&p=5629 Learn how to organize your personal papers, photos, scrapbooks, and other items to digitize and store them for future generations. And find out more about CALS DIY Memory Lab and how to use it to preserve your family history. Please register in advance.

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]]> FamilyHistory with Permanent.org Part 2 of 4: Preparing Your Family History Documents for Digitization https://www.permanent.org/blog/preparing-your-family-history-documents-for-digitization/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/preparing-your-family-history-documents-for-digitization/#respond Wed, 16 Jun 2021 13:52:34 +0000 https://35.161.73.71/blog/preparing-your-family-history-documents-for-digitization/ Describing Your Documents the Archivist Way I hope you enjoyed the first blog in this series, because we are now moving to the next step of your digitizing journey.  So how do we know, or remember, what we have? We write it down. It is important not only to preserve the materials but also the who, what, where, when, and why of our collections. As we all know, we won’t be here forever, but these collections might be. We have to write down the collection’s story, so our grandchildren, great-grandchildren, or researchers can understand the collection.  If you have visited an archive to do research, you were probably given a finding aid for a collection ...

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