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From how to best store photos, to keeping track of who's who in your family tree, this workshop will discuss some archival best practices you can implement at home to preserve your family history. We will cover storage, preservation, and organization options to make sure your family history records last for years to come. We will also highlight some of the challenges faced by people who manage their family memorabilia and some of the most useful, effective, and cost-efficient approaches for caring for these collections. You will be able to immediately apply what you learn in this session to improve how you care for and manage your personal family collections.
We will also discuss what records or materials can be donated to public institutions for care and preservation in perpetuity and how to prepare your donation. Included in this discussion will be an overview of how to locate items in an archive, how to view items in an archive, why archives differ significantly from libraries, and what genealogical resources might be available in the Saanich Archives.
Kaetlen Bursey has a master's degree in Museum Studies, where she specialized in collection management, particularly of archival materials. With over 15 years of experience in information management, organization, and project management, as well as hands-on collections care and archival work at the Royal Ontario Museum, she is now in her dream job as Archives Supervisor with the District of Saanich.