FamilyHistory with Permanent.org Part 2 of 4: Preparing Your Family History Documents for Digitization

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Describing Your Documents the Archivist Way I hope you enjoyed the first blog in this series, because we are now moving to the next step of your digitizing journey.  So how do we know, or remember, what we have? We write it down. It is important not only to preserve the materials but also the who, what, where, when, and why of our collections. As we all know, we won’t be here forever, but these collections might be. We have to write down the collection’s story, so our grandchildren, great-grandchildren, or researchers can understand the collection.  If you have visited an archive to do research, you were probably given a finding aid for a collection …