[Ansteorra] A question for those in academia...

[Owen Van Meter]

Greetings,
     I have been working on my families genealogy for a few years now. One
thing that I have found is to get a good clear plastic sheets that you can
slip the letters and/or photos into. Something like what you would put
photos into for an album. There is one style that has a lip on the open end
that allows you to kind of seal up the open end once you've put your
document into it but allows you to be able to take it back out if needed. If
it says "something (chemical) free" thats even better. A good place to find
these would be at some place like Walmart in the office/school supplies or
even at a office supply store. As you fill up these pages put them in a
three binder or a box that they can lay flat in. If you put them in a binder
on a bookshelf that's not in direct sunlight. Once you have scanned
everything onto a CD put into someplace like a fireproof safe or a safe
deposit box just in case something like a fire happens at your home the
information will be protected. This way the photos and letters can still be
printed out again. Sure the originals are always great but a copy is better
than nothing at all.

     I hope this is at least gives you a place to start. You can find out
some really interesting things about relatives that you didn't know before.
Like I have a great-uncle that ran around with Dillinger and Baby Face
Nelson back in the 1920's and 30's.


                                                                         Ld.
Griffin Van Meteren

ovanoff57 at clearwire.net

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Viviana Rowntree
<tinygypsylady at gmail.com>wrote:

> Good Day to all those in our Fair Kingdom,
> I come to those I consider my brethren for help as I know our eclectic
> group
> has some many wonderful minds and knowledge to impart.
>
> I am working on a personal project of scanning a box of documents that are
> my families history.  My son is studying genealogy this year and thus the
> cause of this event.
>
> My question is this:  how or where to I go to save the documents for
> prosperity?  This box contains letters written in 1920's to 1940's in, what
> I believe, is Austrian.  I have other documents that are as old as the
> 1910's. Obviously, due to a lack of care, the paper is very brittle and
> starting to deteriorate.
>
> Any and all help would be GREATLY appreciated!
>
> Please feel free to forward outside our Kingdom if others can be of help.
>
> --
> Namaste,
>
> Viviana Rowntree
>
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