A book review from Amanda Fulcher Vasquez, DAR Archivist and Digital Asset Specialist:

"I was very excited when the Society of American Archivists  released its new publication, Creating Family Archives: A Step-by-Step Guide to Saving Your Memories for Future Generations. After reading it, I am thrilled to recommend it to anyone interested in learning more about how to care for their personal treasures at home. Author Margot Note is an experienced archival consultant who helps clients manage their family papers and collections. She uses short, concise chapters to explain core archival principles., and this is strengthened by her illustration of real-life archival situations. In the book’s first half, the author demonstrates how anyone can use key concepts such as original order, preservation, item handling strategies and inventories to create a plan to organize and preserve their own papers. In the book’s second half, realistic and relatable examples are used to explain how to preserve specific items, such as paper-based collections, photographs and scrapbooks. Throughout the book, Note uses an encouraging tone that will make anyone feeling overwhelmed more at ease, as she discusses complicated topics such as digitization."

The author recently hosted a free webinar on "Creating Family Archives While Socially Distancing" and may do so again. Visit her website for more information.