At Home with Your Archive

  Once you have worked on sorting and preserving your family’s archive documents as well as expanding on their stories with some family history research, it can be very useful and a lot of fun to research the history of your house. This week is a little bit...

  Now that you have sorted your family archive and know what you have, as well as labelled and stored your records, it is time to use your records to begin expanding upon and tying together the stories in your family archive!   Much like in Part 1 of this...

  Last week we established the importance of treasuring our family archives, and the value of doing so during this period of Lockdown. We also went through some tips on the best way to begin sorting through your archives at home, how to choose what to keep and...

Some of us probably have excellently organised photo albums, scrap books and journals that resemble the most up to date of archive strong-rooms. However, many of us still have stacks of boxes hidden in the attic gathering dust, waiting to be re-discovered and...