Genealogy Series - Planning, Techniques, and Strategies for Preserving Family Collections and Stories

National Archives Museum
Online

Learn how professionals preserve records with surveys to create a plan, use archival techniques, and select storage strategies. Surveys help you create a plan of action to determine record treatment, housing, and storage. Archival techniques can be used on your own personal collections of paper-based materials, photographs, and objects. Strategies include how to identify storage needs for papers and photographs. Sara Holmes will tie this all together and show you how significant documents and records help to tell family stories. Learn more about the Genealogy Series.