Laura Ploenzke gives the Do’s and Don’ts for your family archives.
Laura Ploenzke, Adult Services Librarian, keeps history alive by preserving local photos, artifacts, and a large genealogy collection in Avon Lake, Ohio.
What do we do with pictures, old movies, birth certificates, or the family bible?
Have you already done the work once by converting old movies onto VHS tapes, floppy disks, or some other type of media?
Now everything needs to be converted to digital. Laura tells us how to do it and to do it for FREE.
Laura relates what happens when a family history collection isn’t taken care of properly – a WWII journal that ended up in a $5 box in an estate sale and a poorly preserved fur coat that was willed to an animal activist. She says it’s important to think ahead and preplan for where it goes when we’re gone.
Watch as Laura teaches the simplest Do’s and Don’ts for preserving photos, documents, family treasures, or heirlooms. She also addresses what to do you if you don’t think anyone is interested in your archives.
You will love Laura Ploenzke and her valuable suggestions for researching and preserving the past. Her ageless advice near the end is priceless, as well.
And if you want additional info on what you should keep or toss, watch Mike Ivan talk about whether or not you should use Mom’s good china!
Big THANK YOU to The Normandy Senior Living for making this episode of Aging Gracefully TV possible!
After you watch the video, share what you think in the comment box below!
What might you do differently now with your family archives?
Do you have anything to share from your own experience with genealogy?
Are you the Laura Ploenzke who created this LDS Pedigree Resource File?
If so, are you still interested enough to be working on it?
Thank you so much! I had no idea we could borrow some equipment from the library! We have digitized only some of our photos and you have given me some wonderful tips and inspired me to work on this again.
This was a great program and very timely for us. My husband and I have been overwhelmed with things since my dear mother-in-law went to be with her Savior. Looking through all of the photos has been physically and emotionally exhausting. It is good to hear impartial guidance; to have a framework of how to proceed and to know there is help and tools available through the library. I’m so glad I came across this video.