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 New topics are added as needed and out-of-date issues are revised or deleted.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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