Scrap Paper and Orphan Documents in Archives
Melissa Barker
Content
Introduction
9:08
Scrap Paper & Orphan Docs
3:22
Jack Hinson's Note
9:16
Why an Orphan Document?
2:38
Vertical Files
3:25
Record Donations
3:17
Mary Carpenter Envelopes
6:06
Grandma Bateman's Purchase
14:21
Jesse Glasgow's Orphan Docs
11:49
Finding Documents
5:15
About this webinar
Many of our archives have scrap paper and orphan documents that are discovered on a daily basis that don't belong to any particular records collection. In this webinar find out what archives do with these records and how you as a genealogists can discover these pieces of scrap paper and orphan documents in archive to help with your own family research.
About the speaker
Melissa Barker is a Certified Archives Manager and Public Historian currently working at the Houston County, Tennessee Archives & Museum where she has been the first and only archivist for the pas...
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