Product Description

Interest in genealogy often begins with a stack of old photos. Genealogists and non-genealogists love old photos, and many have collections of photos of their ancestors, but sadly are unaware of how to organize and properly care for these precious heirlooms. Preserving Your Family Photographs shows how to organize and store photographs so future generations can enjoy them. All genealogists, family historians and anyone with a desire to gather and preserve family photographs in an album will benefit from this book Readers will learn to care for photos, how to identify different types of damage and learn basic conservation techniques, how to buy the proper storage materials, how to organize the family photo archive, and how to safely display photographs. This book is a strong follow-up to Uncovering Your Ancestry Through Family Photographs, which discussed how to identify types of old photos and how to interpret family history information in them.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #869452 in Books
• Published on: 2003-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 109 pages

About the Author
Maureen Taylor is the author of Uncovering Your Ancestry Through Family Photographs and Through the Eyes of Our Ancestors. She is a frequent lecturer at genealogical conferences and workshops across the country on the subject of photo identification, organization and preservation, and was the director of Library User Services for the prestigious New England Historical Genealogical Society in Boston.