Genealogy - Preserving Your Family Treasures

Caring for Your Artifacts

http://www.thehenryford.org/research/caring.aspx

“Preservation Fact Sheets to assist in caring for your historical materials. These fact sheets provide basic information on the care, cleaning, and handling of a particular type of artifact, referral information to other conservation organizations, and a bibliography of authoritative works.”

Conserv O Grams

https://www.nps.gov/museum/publications/conserveogram/cons_toc.html

“...short, focused leaflets about caring for museum objects, published in loose-leaf format. New topics are added as needed and out-of-date issues are revised or deleted. Semiannual supplements will be issued for an indeterminate period.”

Conservation

https://www.mnhs.org/preserve/conservation/

Resources cover topics from oral history to organizing family papers to care of photographs.

Disaster Recovery

http://www.ala.org/alcts/preservationweek/resources/disasterrecovery

A selection of online resources to help you in your disaster recovery, restoring family heirlooms.

Personal Archiving

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/you/

How to organize, preserve, and digitize your family treasures.

Preparing, Protecting, Preserving Family Treasures

http://www.loc.gov/preserv/familytreasures/

“This website provides simple instructions, as well as links to more comprehensive information for “Preparing, Protecting, Preserving” many types of family treasures."

Preservation 101

https://www.nedcc.org/free-resources/preservation-101

Free online course from the Northeast Document Conservation Center.

Preservation and Conservation

https://www.canada.ca/en/services/culture/history-heritage/museology-conservation/preservation-conservation.html

"Get information, services, training and expert advice for the preservation and conservation of physical and digital cultural objects and artifacts."

Preservation Resources

https://www.njstatelib.org/services_for_libraries/resources/preservation/

Emergency responders, training guides, and preservation resources. Compiled by the NJ State Library.

Preservation Toolkit

http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/preswk/toolkit

Organized by material type, these Web sites, books, and other sources give useful information on caring for any kind of collection.

Preserving Family History Records Digitally - Family Search

https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/preserving-family-history-records-digitallypart-1/

Introduction to digital preservation.

Save Your Family Treasures
https://www.fema.gov/disaster/recover/save-family-treasures
FEMA and the Smithsonian Institution co-sponsor the Heritage Emergency National Task Force, The Task Force offers guidance to help you recover your family treasures from a disaster.

Taking Care

http://si.edu/MCI/english/learn_more/taking_care/index.html

Offers guideline pamphlets that can be downloaded.

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