What to Save? What to Toss? 4 Questions That Can Help You Decide with FREE Handout for Tour Readers
Today the How to Archive Family Keepsakes Blog Book Tour visits blogger Lorine McGinnis Schulze at OliveTreeGenealogy.
We are talking about working with the “stuff” we inherit, but this applies to what we decide to keep and pass on to our descendants too! You’ll want to read today’s Guest Post at OliveTree Genealogy and download the FREE Handout — a handy list of What to Save, What to Skim, and What to Toss. This handout will be available for a limited time, so don’t delay.
Guest Post by Denise May Levenick, The Family Curator, author of How to Archive Family Keepsakes (Family Tree Books, 2012).
It can be hard for family historians to let go of anything that might carry a family story, no matter how old or broken that keepsake might be — the chipped china teacup you remember from your grandmother’s kitchen cupboard, the mildewed children’s book that was once bright and new, the keys to long-forgotten locks.
One key isn’t much to save, but it doesn’t take long for family keepsakes to become a mountain of memorabilia that threatens to come down on our present life like an avalanche.
So, how do we choose, what to save, what to toss, and what to give away? I’ve sifted, sorted, and organized dozens of family collections, and discovered that (continue reading at OliveTreeGenealogy). . .