The Family Curator - Preserving and sharing our family treasures

Are you ready for a different kind of family history challenge? If you’re like me, your home may hold more than a few inherited items from your parents, grandparents, or other relations.
Several years ago I dutifully organized a scattered hodge-lodge of my grandmother’s old photos. Each cabinet card or snapshot was scanned, front and back, before the original was carefully placed in archival sleeves and boxes....

Inheriting the family legacy of photos, letters, papers, and memorabilia is often a mixed blessing. What to save? What to toss? How to archive and process a family collection?
Learn the foundations of practical family archiving this summer at the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP) in “Family Archiving: Heirlooms in the Digital Age.” Students from throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico have brought...

Are you looking for summertime opportunities to advance your genealogical education? I am honored to once again join the faculty for the July 19-24 Session of the Genealogical Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP) where I’ll be teaching “Family Archiving: Heirlooms...

Most people think of resolutions and diets in January of a new year. Genealogists think about organizing their files and research.
Since moving houses last spring, I’ve been working through files and boxes to relabel, rehouse and rethink some of my earlier organizing strategies....