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AN-240 A PRESERVATION GUIDE.
By Barbara Sagraves. $7.00
This guide will assist you in choosing the best way to preserve those precious materials you have collected in your searches.

AN OUNCE OF PRESERVATION. By Craig A. Tuttle. $13.00 

BW-70536: ORGANIZING AND PRESERVING YOUR HEIRLOOM DOCUMENTS.  By Katherine Scott Sturdevant. 208 pages. 8.5" x 11". Softbound. $22.00.
Family documents are among the most valuable family heirlooms passed from one generation to another.  Here we have a valuable guide that makes simple the care, use and preservation of the family documents we all have and offers us practical tips on the care, use, preservation and publication of the information found therein.

This is a do-it-yourself and enjoy it guide.  Please do not wait to get this book as it is one you may not be able to find when you need it.  You will need it just as soon as one of these priceless pieces of antiquity falls into your hands.  You can do irreparable harm to a document if you have not learned what is already known about the care of old documents.  Here is a list of her sixteen chapter titles:

  1. Your Family Heirloom Papers

  2. Being Biographer, Aficionado, Literary Critic,

  3. Professional Field + Personal Element

  4. Locating Family Heirloom Documents

  5. Preserving Original Documents

  6. Your Selection Process

  7. Organizing your Documents

  8. Organizing Your Project

  9. Transcribing Your Document

  10. How to Edit and Proofread

  11. Annotating Your Document

  12. Illustrating Your Document

  13. Researching Annotation and Illustrations

  14. To Keep or to Donate?

  15. Publishing Your Documentary Book

  16. What Else Can You Do?

Every piece of your family history that you lay your hands on from the Family Bible to notes left to family members by another family member, to letters to servicemen, to letters written to those back home and the very notes you take while collecting your family history in interviewing your family members deserves to be protected, preserved and cared for.

This book will tell you how and give you the confidence to get started.

BW-70514: PRESERVING YOUR FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS
By Maureen Taylor, 192 pages, 8.5" x 11", Softbound, $20.00
Learn to use basic conservation techniques, buy proper storage and organize the family photo archive.

 

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