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The following news release was received from Tami Mize, at JoyFlips: JoyFlips giving away $80,000 worth of FamilyArchive™ Kits at RootsTech Launch of Version 4.0. Groundbreaking technology for preserving and sharing family stories being launched at world’s largest family history Continue reading JoyFlips Giving Away $80,000 Worth of FamilyArchive™ Kits at RootsTech
The following excerpt is from an August 17, 2016 article posted at TheAdvocate.com: The [Louisiana] State Archives has offered several tips for Louisiana residents trying to save flooded documents and photographs. Wide-spread flooding has left thousands of homes with damage Continue reading The Louisiana State Archives Has Posted Tips For Saving Flood Damaged Documents & Photos
The following teaser is from an article posted on nytimes.com A thousand years after the Vikings braved the icy seas from Greenland to the New World in search of timber and plunder, satellite technology has found intriguing evidence of a Continue reading View From Space Hints at a New Viking Site in North America
The following teaser is from an article posted on clickondetroit.com Teens tipped over headstones at 175-year-old Michigan cemetery ‘because they were bored’ GENEVA TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Authorities say three teenagers have confessed to tipping over and damaging more than 30 Continue reading Teens tipped over headstones at 175-year-old Michigan cemetery
The following article was written by Bryan Mulcahy, M.L.S., Reference Librarian at the Ft. Myers Regional Library, Ft. Myers, Florida: Genealogical research can be one of the most fulfilling experiences in a person’s life. Yet it is also a time Continue reading Creating a Genealogy Research Disaster Plan
In the very early morning hours of March 29, 1911, a fire got started in the 3rd floor Assembly Library of the New York Capital Building. The fire quickly spread throughout the third floor, then on to the fourth floor Continue reading Donation to Conserve & Digitize Documents From the 1911 New York Capital Fire
The following excerpt is from an article posted in the November 14, 2013 edition of the El Dorado Springs Sun Online. [Missouri] Secretary of State Jason Kander advised Missourians about significant threats to the long-term preservation of all types of Continue reading Advice on the Preservation of Your Family Papers
Considering how easy it is too lose your data, we all need to heed this advice. From “Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter” for November 01, 2013 It is the first day of the month. It’s time to back up your genealogy Continue reading Dick Eastman Reminds Us: Back Up Your Genealogy.
The following excerpt is from an article published in the September 12, 2011 edition of TheGleaner.com of Henderson, Kentucky. Gen. Samuel Hopkins would be doubly pleased this week. Friday morning the community plans to dedicate the cemetery where he is Continue reading Original Surveyor’s Plat Map Donated to the Kentucky State Archives
The following News Release was posted by the National Archives July 20, 2011: Washington, DC… After weeks of intensive conservation treatment, the National Archives has completed the first phase of a major project leading to the re-encasement and public display Continue reading National Archives Conservators Reveal Previously Illegible Text in Magna Carta
The following information is from the North Carolina State Archives: RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA – If your special papers and photographs are not in plastic, or stored somewhere safe, there are steps that may save water-damaged treasures. Gov. Bev Perdue requested Continue reading Tips to Preserve Wet Papers Documents & Photographs from the North Carolina State Archives
Earlier this moth, a water pipe burst in the Local History Room in the Rockingham Library of Bellow’s Falls, Vermont. The following excerpt is from an article in the December 30, 2010 edition of the Vermont Public Radio website. It Continue reading Saving the Water-damaged Items from the Flooded Local History Room at the Rockingham Library
Boxford {Masachusetts] – Tucked into the heart of West Boxford Village is an unassuming building that houses many of the town’s treasures — the Boxford Historical Document Center. The modest one-story brick building, situated next to the Second Congregational Church Continue reading The Boxford Historical Document Center in Boxford, Massachusetts
Following is another thought-provoking article by my friend, Tom Fiske: A couple years ago I met with a friend, Carolyn, who had an old diary from the 1860’s. It was a handwritten account by her ancestor, Seth B. Reid, who Continue reading Do It Now! – Before the Termites Get At It!
The following excerpt is from a good article on artifact preservation in the June 1, 2010 Deseret News. The stuff of our lives — the meaningful things we surround ourselves with, find, are given, gather up, inherit — is the Continue reading Saving “Stuff” That May Become Artifacts