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Preserving & Using Family Papers
Your ancestors left behind more than official records—letters, scrapbooks, diaries, and scraps of paper hold priceless clues. This four-part series teaches you to find, preserve, and use these personal treasures. Learn archival techniques for old family letters, discover types of scrapbooks worth mining, explore diaries and journals that reveal your ancestor's daily life, and uncover 'orphan documents' hiding in archives. Save your family's story!
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Preserving Old Family Letters: Tips from an Archivist
with Melissa Barker
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Scrapbooks: A Genealogist's Gold Mine
with Melissa Barker
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Diaries, Journals and Calendars: Preserving and Document Your Ancestor's Day-to-Day Life
with Melissa Barker
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Scrap Paper and Orphan Documents in Archives
with Melissa Barker
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