Creating Family Archives: A Step-by-Step Guide to Saving Your Memories for Future Generations

by Margot Note

Family history is important. Photos, videos, aged documents, and cherished papers—these are the memories that you want to save. And they need a better home than a cardboard box. Creating Family Archives is a book written by an archivist for you, your family, and friends, taking you step-by-step through the process of arranging and preserving your own family archives. It’s the first book of its kind offered to the public by the Society of American Archivists. Gathering up the boxes of photos and years of video is a big job. But this fascinating and instructional book will make it easier and—in the end—much better. (Society of American Archivists, 2019)

Genres: Nonfiction

229 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 2, 2020

About the author

Margot Note is a Certified Archivist, a Certified Records Manager, an Information Governance Professional, and Project Management Professional.

Reviews

[Margot Note]

Read it? I wrote it!

[Noel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good, basic guide for saving photos and digital family memorabilia.

[Karen · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was not what I was looking for with reguards to indexing/digitizing an archive.
It said something to the effect of tools change to fast to document.

It did encourage me to move slides and super 8s higher in my list of things to do.

[Olivia Basha · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent, concise, engaging, practical, comprehensive guide for anyone wondering how to preserve, organize, and share their family documents, photos, memorabilia, etc. Highly recommend!

[Patsy McLaughlin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Have you recently inherited a house full of memorabilia? Photos? furniture? dishes/ china? This is the book for you. Ms Note covers all kinds of memorabilia in her descriptions of how to preserve and annotate items of value to family members and descendants. Well worth the cost of the book.