Category Archives: Family history

Preservation Week: Personal Archives and Hi(STORIES)

Welcome to Preservation Week!  This week long event is celebrated by libraries, archives, and other institutions to emphasize what communities can do to preserve personal and shared collections.  Frequently, the American Heritage Center (AHC) talks about the collections within in … Continue reading

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Family History Research @ the AHC

Archivists working in the Reference Department of the American Heritage Center are often asked about resources that can help genealogists track their family’s history.  Sometimes that’s an easy question–we might actually have the personal family papers of that researcher’s forebears.  … Continue reading

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