Monthly Meeting - Mar. 8, 2014

Session 1
 
 
Organize Your Family Archive: Caring for Keepsakes
 
Denise Levenick
Speaker: Denise Lovenick

Learn how to care for the Top Ten Family Treasures from photographs to furniture, from love letters to lockets, clocks, and Bibles.  Learn to identify common hazards such as silverfish, mold, acid migration, and how to set up a simple Home Archive to safely store your heirlooms.
Focus: Preservation, Digitization.
 
 
Session 2
 
Digitize Your Family History: The Paper-Less Genealogist
 
Simple strategies to break the paper habit, file less paper, and organize what you keep. Learn the best scanner for your needs, basic scanner settings for genealogists, file-naming for easy retrieval, and baby steps to help you move toward managing less paper.
Focus: Digitization, Organization
 
 
Denise May Levenick is a writer, researcher, and speaker with a passion for preserving and sharing family treasures of all kinds. She is the creator of the award-winning family history blog, The Family Curator www.TheFamilyCurator.com and author of the new book How to Archive Family Keepsakes (Family Tree Books, 2012).
 
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June 6-8 Jamboree * September Seminar with Cyndi Ingle of Cyndi's List * October 19-25 Family History Research Trip to Salt Lake City