I’m taking my ancestor letters and writing a cover story about them that places that ancestor in the time period in which the letter(s) were written. I’m doing this both to preserve their letters and to introduce descendants to their ancestors. I’ve learned so much through this process. I’d like to learn more about the *internet archive*.
I've given a great deal of thought to the ultimate location of my family history research. To that end, I try to share my stories with any family members who might be interested in what I've found. Further, I have plans made to send major portions of my work to the Internet Archive. As some of my stories are approaching book-length, I will publish more of them and offer them to libraries in geographic areas referenced in the books.
I'm trying to interest younger family members in continuing the work I've begun. I can't claim that any of them are interested enough to be willing to take possession of my archive, yet. But hope springs eternal.
This is certainly something we all need to think about. At the moment, I am gradually pulling all my material (documents, media, stories etc.) into my WeAre.xyz archive and encouraging members of the family into the archive either as viewers, contributors, editors or admin depending on what role they want to play although I don't have many signed up yet. I still have papers, documents etc. in boxes waiting to be loaded. I have created a symbiotic relationship between my archive and my substack publication, each links to the other. I also have PDF'd copies of my Substack articles printed off in folders.
I’m taking my ancestor letters and writing a cover story about them that places that ancestor in the time period in which the letter(s) were written. I’m doing this both to preserve their letters and to introduce descendants to their ancestors. I’ve learned so much through this process. I’d like to learn more about the *internet archive*.
Brilliant! Do these cover letters have their own internal organization ie date, theme, writer, location? Or are you going 1:1 letter to cover?
I've given a great deal of thought to the ultimate location of my family history research. To that end, I try to share my stories with any family members who might be interested in what I've found. Further, I have plans made to send major portions of my work to the Internet Archive. As some of my stories are approaching book-length, I will publish more of them and offer them to libraries in geographic areas referenced in the books.
I'm trying to interest younger family members in continuing the work I've begun. I can't claim that any of them are interested enough to be willing to take possession of my archive, yet. But hope springs eternal.
This is certainly something we all need to think about. At the moment, I am gradually pulling all my material (documents, media, stories etc.) into my WeAre.xyz archive and encouraging members of the family into the archive either as viewers, contributors, editors or admin depending on what role they want to play although I don't have many signed up yet. I still have papers, documents etc. in boxes waiting to be loaded. I have created a symbiotic relationship between my archive and my substack publication, each links to the other. I also have PDF'd copies of my Substack articles printed off in folders.