Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Posts about the best ways to care for, preserve, interpret, and use family photos & records in your genealogy research.
A new guide to archiving video is Tuesday’s Tip. The human rights organization, witness.org, has published The Activists’ Guide to Archiving Video, which is so well done it’s been featured at The Signal, the digital preservation blog at [...]
Today’s Tuesday’s Tip can help preserve your paper family records and photographs and it doesn’t even cost much. ☞ Wear gloves when handling family records, especially photographs and negatives. Those latent (invisible) fingerprints that CSIs [...]
Move family records and photographs to preserve them. Tuesday's tip is the smartest, safest, and cheapest preservation thing you can do to preserve your paper family records. If you've stored them in an attic, garage, or [...]
Tuesday's tip is to check the backs of old framed family photos. Framers often used cardboard and scrap wood to back photographs in their frames in the early twentieth century. These backing materials are [...]
