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The Home Archivist: Preserving Your Ancestor's Records

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2022-11-29 14:30:00 2022-11-29 15:30:00 America/Indiana/Indianapolis The Home Archivist: Preserving Your Ancestor's Records Virtual Genealogy -

Tuesday, November 29
2:30pm - 3:30pm

Add to Calendar 2022-11-29 14:30:00 2022-11-29 15:30:00 America/Indiana/Indianapolis The Home Archivist: Preserving Your Ancestor's Records Join us for a FREE, virtual program on Tuesday, November 29th at 2:30 PM EST! Virtual Genealogy -

Join us for a FREE, virtual program on Tuesday, November 29th at 2:30 PM EST!

Learn from a professional archivist how to preserve, protect, and archive family records, photographs, and artifacts. Best practices for organization, purchasing archival materials and practical records preservation that any home archivist can achieve! Learn how to process your collection of genealogical records from start to finish. Learn the steps archivists use to process small and large records collections at the archives and how you can use these steps to get a handle on your family records collections! Presented by Melissa Barker.

Melissa Barker is a Certified Archives Manager and Public Historian currently working at the Houston County, Tennessee Archives. She is affectionally known as The Archive Lady to the genealogy community. She lectures, teaches, and writes about the genealogy research process, researching in archives and records preservation. She conducts virtual presentations across the United States and Canada for various genealogy groups and societies. She writes a popular blog entitled A Genealogist in the Archives and is a well-known genealogy and history book reviewer. She has been a Professional Genealogist for the past 17 years with expertise in Tennessee records. She has been researching her own family history for the past 32 years.

Register in advance for this program!

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Handout

AGE GROUP: | Middle School | High School | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Family History & Genealogy |

TAGS: | Genealogy |

Virtual Genealogy


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