Little. Yellow. Dangerous.
Sticky notes are fine for temporary files, but do NOT use them on family treasures like photographs, bibles, clippings and letters. Check out this email conversation from the Archives & Archivists...
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A Crazy Rant About Local Eggs (with *important* information about archival...
Sometimes? You have to carry your anger around with you for a looong time before you have a chance to write it down. I’ve literally been holding onto an empty egg carton because the icky marketing...
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Newspaper Clippings: Can They Be Saved?
Lisa Louise Cooke and I had an interesting chat about how to preserve newspaper clippings. You get to listen in our conversation because we recorded it for Lisa’s Genealogy Gems podcast. Yay! Episode...
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Ermadene Follows My Advice, Saves Family Photos from Destruction
You know why you should follow my advice? Because I know what I’m talking about, that’s why. Ermadene is one of my star pupils. Not only did she pay attention during our teleclasses, she followed...
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Fireproof & Waterproof Hard Drive: Best Hard Drive Ever?
How I Discovered ioSafe External Hard Drives The first time I ever even heard of such a thing as a waterproof and fireproof external hard drive was in an article called Beyond organizing: storing and...
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Preserving old love letters is easy (I promise)
Photo of love letters by Jayegirl99 via Flickr Whether you’ve inherited your favorite grandma’s love letters or it’s your name on the envelope, I have good news for you: It’s easy to preserve them long...
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How to Organize Inherited Family Genealogy Research (Guest Post from The...
This is a guest post by Denise May Levenick, The Family Curator. At my request, she’s offered an excerpt from Chapter 6 of her new book How to Archive Family Keepsakes: Learn How to Preserve Family...
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The Chemical Sandwich of Doooom! Top 5 Tips from Practical Archivist
Tweet 5 tips to help you preserve your one-of-a-kind family photographs 1. You can’t keep it all. Really, you can’t. I get surprised looks when I share this truth with my workshop participants. I...
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Ask @PracticalArch: Can I store multiple photos together?
Erin, It’s safe to store a small stack of photographs together. It gets tricky when they are different sizes, since that can cause bending, plus a corner of a smaller photo can nick the emulsion of...
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Yikes! Solving the Nasty Problem of Moldy Photographs
Here in the American Midwest, we’re familiar with the problem of seasonal flooding. We love to build our houses near gorgeous bodies of water, but that means a higher risk. Back in May 2008, the...
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Do your ’76 Bicentennial photos need a rescue?
I realized this week that it’s getting close to 40 years since America celebrated its Bicentennial. My small home town (technically a village) went all-in on the celebrations. We painted all the fire...
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An urgent message from the photos on your phone
ACK! I lost my phone last week, but I’m happy to report that I did not lose a single photo. I’m releived and grateful and, frankly, proud of myself. Because I didn’t just think about doing it. I...
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Is it safe to scan curled negatives?
A few years back, I did a call-in radio show on WORT-FM. At the very last moment when I was on the air, I got a question that I ended up taking off the air. The question was from someone who had...
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FASK Sales Close *Early* This Year! Oct. 15th
Family Archiist Surivial Kits will close before the end of the month, on October 15th. Against the advice of my attorney… That’s a dramatic opener, I realize. Please don’t worry, I’m not in any...
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Ermadene Follows My Advice, Saves Family Photos from Destruction
You know why you should follow my advice? Because I know what I’m talking about, that’s why. Ermadene is one of my star pupils. Not only did she pay attention during our teleclasses, she followed...
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Fireproof & Waterproof Hard Drive: Best Hard Drive Ever?
How I Discovered ioSafe External Hard Drives The first time I ever even heard of such a thing as a waterproof and fireproof external hard drive was in an article called Beyond organizing: storing and...
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Preserving old love letters is easy (I promise)
Photo of love letters by Jayegirl99 via Flickr Whether you’ve inherited your favorite grandma’s love letters or it’s your name on the envelope, I have good news for you: It’s easy to preserve them long...
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