LE05: Preserving your Family History - Genealogy & Archives - REVISED
Date and Time: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12 noon - 2 p.m.
Presenters: Staff of the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center
Location: Arthur Fiedler Room on the second floor of the Mugar Memorial Library, 771 Commonwealth Avenue

Do you have family papers and photographs gathering dust in your attic and basement that you want to organize and preserve, but aren't sure where to start? Do you know where your family came from or how they came to America? Creating your own personal archive and tracking down your family lineage is easier than you think. Join us for a single-session, two-hour workshop that will give you the tools you need to assemble, arrange, preserve, and catalog all the pieces of your and your family's unique history.

What You Will Learn

• Methods of gathering, sorting, and weeding material
• How to store and care for your items
• What supplies to get and where to get them
• Guidelines for writing an inventory
• Solutions for immediate and long-term preservation
• How to store print, film, and audio
• Strategies for preserving digital information
• Research techniques to track down family history and lineage
  

Who Should Attend

• Members of the BU family with personal or historical material who wish to arrange and preserve it for future generations

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