How to Archive Your Family History Documents, Photos, & Artifacts

Learn how to archive your family history documents, photos, and artifacts from the Archive Lady herself, Melissa Barker. In this "footnotes" episode we're exploring the right and wrong way to save your family heirlooms. Also we'll show you how to build your own
Home Archivist Tool Box.

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About Melissa Barker
Certified Archives Manager
Houston County, TN. Archivist
Professional Genealogist
Reviews Editor for FGS FORUM Magazine
Lecturer, Teacher and Writer

Blog: agenealogistinthearchives.blogspot.com/
Website: genealogyservices.webs.com/
Facebook Page: facebook.com/melissa.barker.564
Twitter: twitter.com/TNArchivist

Chapter Markers
0:00 Intro
2:30 Welcome
3:10 How to get started preserving old artifacts
4:04 Try to digitize and preserve old bibles
4:58 Where to get archival materials
6:10 Can you use any acid free paper?
6:24 Acid free, lignet free, and pass the P.A.T. paper
6:35 Pass the P.A.T. meaning Photographic Activity Test.
6:50 How to preserve old photographs
7:20 Do you need white gloves to handle photographs and documents
8:10 Filing in folders and notebooks
8:40 Preserving old newspaper
8:50 Old Daily Southerner Newspaper from Tarboro, NC
10:00 Archival box Add notes about where it came from
10:37 How to preserve old scrapbooks
11:20 Do not use original photos in scrapbooks
12:12 Responsibility of preservation
13:05 Planning ahead for preservation donations
15:11 Materials for preservation
17:40 Can you write on the back of photos?
18:00 Identi Pen
19:05 What to do with curled photos?
21:18 Home Archivist Tool Box document
21:41 Soft brushes for cleaning documents
22:22 Micro Spatula
22:55 Gloves for archiving
23:10 Dirt and soot cleaning sponge
23:20 How to clean a document
25:28 Document Repair Tape
26:18 Do not use sponge on pencil writing
26:40 Create an archival tool kit
27:46 Rules for archiving records
27:55 Can you laminate old documents?
28:50 How to store your old documents
30:00 Document preservation at the archives
31:01 Flatten and unfold your records
31:59 Don’t be afraid of your old documents
32:36 How to preserve your documents professionally
33:40 How to contact Melissa Barker

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