The Home Archivist: Preserving Family Records Like a Pro!

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1. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   6 years ago

   One of the best. Lots of practical tips not often mentioned. Thanks!\n\nReally great tips about organizing and preserving documents.\n\nReally interesting. Provided so much good information and helpful tips.\n\nSo many great tips! I made a list of things to purchase for my genealogy kit. I learned a lot today!\n\nSo much really useful info - carefully explained, and a pleasant voice to listen to. Lots of things to get me going on what i have been putting off doinh - ie getting organised! Thank you Melissa and Legacy.\n\nSo much to learn...excellent presentation\n\nSome things I knew, but a lot I didn't. Also, although it wasn't mentioned, I got a great idea on something to do with my storage. Thank you.\n\nSuch good things to know as we go along in our researching, to preserve our hard work.\n\nTerrific! Useful!\n\nThank you for all the great information!\n\nThank you for answering my question about cleaning mold off photographs. I have ruined one of my great grandfather. Now I know how to try to clean other photos.\n\nThank you so much!\n\nThanks for info which I hope will help me with my "stuff"\n\nThanks! I really needed that! Brilliant!\n\nthe best!\n\nThis was great information. Thanks\n\nThis was wonderful! So many great ideas, and now that I know better, I can do better with all that I have! Thank you So very much!\n\nVery articulate presenter with easy-to-understand, helpful-to-me content!\n\nVery clear, precise, concise and practical information.\n\nVery helpful webinar on how to archive and preserve my family history documents. I learned a lot!! Great job, Melissa!\n\nVery helpful. Would like to have heard more about materials that are not classified as archival and do not harm records. I was surprised to hear that plastic paper clips are okay. I thought plastic was a problem; or maybe just certain types???\n\nVery informative and I plan to make an archivist's toolbox. Great presentation!!\n\nVery informative, enjoyed it immensely\n\nVery thorough\n\nVery useful info.\n\nvery useful information\n\nWebinar presented good tips for preserving documents. Thank you. \n\nwell presented and organized\n\nWonderful information\n\nWonderful information, very well presented, VERY HELPFUL handout. \n\nWonderful speaker and extremely helpful information.\n\nWonderful webinar with very useful information!\n\nWonderful webinar! I could have done with this information about 10 years ago, when I first got started! Thanks to Melissa for an excellent webinar loaded with such useful content, tips, and advice.\n\nWonderful. Just the tip about musty smell removal was valuable. Sometimes, I have taken document/photos outside to air. \n\nWow that was on of the best webinars I have attended.....now off to remove all rubber bands and paperclips :)

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2. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   6 years ago

   great information, very well-presented\n\nGreat information. Well organized clear presentation. \n\nGreat presentation!\n\nGreat recommendations.\n\nGreat session with so much content!\n\nGreat topic & excellent coverage - thank you\n\nGreat webinar!!! Excellent content, excellent speaker (presented at an excellent pace); all around one of the best and most useful webinars this year!\n\nI enjoyed this webinar very much - lots of tips.\n\nI just visited an Archive in a small town in Normandy, France (Louviers, 27400), last week-end during the European Heritage days, annual event in Europe, https://www.europeanheritagedays.com/Home.aspx. The Conservators gave me a lot of information. Melissa's teachings complete my knowledge about how to unfold gently, clean and store my own documents. Thanks to you, Melissa, for the wonderful advices which will be very useful to me, as a beginner genealogist!\n\nI learned a lot from an expert!\n\nI love listening to Melissa! Her handouts are so detailed and organized and she is easy to listen to. She is so enthusiastic about her subject.\n\nI work in an archives and it was great to hear about best practices for the home. Melissa's advice is so practical!\n\nIt was very informative. Thanks!\n\nKnowledgable, great stuff especially the last little bit on mold\n\nLots of great hints!!\n\nLots of very useful and simple archival information that can be put to use by genealogists\n\nLoved her clear, concise, and "do-able" methods for preserving records at home.\n\nMany, many excellent topics\n\nMelissa Barker gave us so many useful and practical tips for organizing our home archives. Fantastic! Many thanks!\n\nMelissa Barker was a great speaker and the webinar was full of well-presented info. The syllabus was put together well with the toolbox supplies towards the back. The webinar reaffirmed a bunch of what I'm doing right and reminded me more about things I need to incorporate. I will I had heard this in 1990.\n\nMelissa is always very good. Her explanations are clear and full of helpful and important information. Thank you.\n\nMelissa is one of the best webinar presenters! I love her! Thank you so very much! \n\nMelissa's webinar handouts are excellent and she specks so easily that everyone should benefit from the sound advice and expertise.\n\nMelissa's webinars are always excellent!\n\nNice presentation with helpful information. Thanks so much! \n\nOne of the best - Thanks Melissa\n\nOne of the best webinars ever.\n\nOne of the best webinars ever--lots of helpful tips and information. And the photos of the tools, with specific brand names helps a lot, too. It was great that the presenter explained why to do something or NOT do something.\n\nOne of the best webinars!

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3. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   6 years ago

   A lot of very interesting and useful ways to protect our records. Thank you, Melissa\n\nA lot of great information on archiving at home. Going to put together an Archive Tool Box in the very near future.\n\nA lot of great information, thanks, Melissa.\n\nAlthough having worked as a librarian, I still always learn something new from Melissa, and indeed, did so again today! \n\nAlways enjoy her presentations!\n\nAwesome information. Excellent webinar!\n\nBrilliant webinar with lots of very valuable information to help preserve our genealogy records.\n\nChock full of information. One of the best webinars I've seen. Thanks!\n\nenjoyed it!\n\nExcellent content and presentation delivery!!!\n\nExcellent information and presentation.\n\nExcellent information. I enjoyed this very much\n\nExcellent methods for preservation from a true expert. Thank you!\n\nExcellent presentation. Thank you for offering it.\n\nExcellent reminders of what to do with our records and documents.\n\nExcellent topic and discussion\n\nExcellent webinar! She also spoke clearly and distinctly which also adds to the excellence!! Learned a lot!!\n\nExcellent, clear practical advice.\n\nExcellent, excellent webinar! Great presenter with lots of practical advice. I am going to start assembling my tool kit NOW!\n\nexcellent, nice and easy to follow\n\nExcellent, thanks\n\nExcellent.\n\nExcellent. Very helpful. Full of ideas I have not heard before. One of best Webinars\n\nexcellent. one of the best ever on this topic. \n\nExtremely Awesome! (5 Plus)\n\nFantastic webinar. I learned so much!\n\nFantastic webinar. Learnt so many new things. Great advice. Best webinar that I have attended.\n\nFantastic!\n\nFascinating, and handout is a winner!!\n\nGood advice. Easy ideas to follow. Very knowledgeable speaker.\n\nGood presenter - clear, well-organized. Thanks!\n\ngreat info for us!\n\nGreat info, I've never thought of myself as an archivist, but danged if I'm not!

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