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Preserving Your Memories, a special issue from the editors of Family Tree Magazine, is your complete guide to saving and sharing your family history. We provide all the tools and instructions you need to turn family "artifacts" into timeless treasures: You'll find must-know techniques for lasting scrapbooks, steps to identify old family photos and easy ways to protect them, instructions for preserving life stories and a directory of archival suppliers and essential resources.
Preserving Your Memories September 2002 includes:
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Mission: Memories
Your quest to preserve family history starts here. By Allison Stacy
TOOLS & TECHNIQUES
Archival Answers
Photo cropping, fading inks and other sticky scrapbooking situations—find solutions in this Q&A. By Diane Weiner
Ingredients of an Heirloom
Products and pointers to help you serve up a slice of your heritage. By Diane Weiner
From This Day Forward
Vow to preserve today's wedding memories for tomorrow—these tips show you how. By Allison Stacy
Grave Impressions
You don't have to go beyond the graveyard to create an ancestral artifact. Here's how to do a tombstone rubbing, step by step. By Sharon DeBartolo Carmack
Just Encased
Seal your keepsakes' fate simply and safely by encapsulating them in plastic. We guide you through the 13-step process. By David L. Mishkin
- Plus! Out of Harm's Way
Strategies to combat the environmental enemies that destroy precious documents. By Patti Swoboda
Backup Plan
A multimedia-production expert explains how to safeguard your family's yesterdays using today's technology. By Joseph C. Keenan
FAMILY PHOTOS
Secrets of a Photo Sleuth
Clueless about the origins of your old family photographs? These 10 steps will put you on the path to solving your picture puzzles. By Maureen A. Taylor
Lasting Reflections
An archivist shares 12 photo-storage rules that will keep your memories intact for years to come. By Lynn Ewbank
HERITAGE ALBUMS
Crafting Your Past
How do you turn your family history into a family heirloom? Follow these four easy steps to create a heritage album your relatives will treasure. By Bev Kirschner Braun
The Safe Scrapbooker's Bible
If you're going to preserve pictures and memorabilia in albums, practice what we preach: eight archival-safe scrapbooking techniques. By Maureen A. Taylor
- Plus! Saving Graces
How to rescue photos and memorabilia from ancestral scrapbooks. By Lydia Rueger
LIFE STORIES
Composing Yourself
No one can tell your story better than you. Create a thrilling account of your life—or your relatives'—with the help of our memoir-writing manual. By Sharon DeBartolo Carmack
What's the Scoop?
Learn these oral history interviewing basics to go beyond the facts and uncover the family history that's not in the record books. By Sharon DeBartolo Carmack
PRESERVATION DIRECTORY
Your Safekeeping Sourcebook
Find all the resources you need to preserve your memories in this 10-page directory of suppliers, Web sites, books, software and more.
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Preserving Your Memories September 2002 is sold out. Check your library for a copy, or browse our list of available back issues for more archival-preservation articles.
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