Learn How to Safely Archive Family Photos, Memorabilia – Noozhawk

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By Glenn Avolio for Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society | September 7, 2019 | 9:00 a.m.

Denise May Levenick

Denise May Levenick

Family curator Denise May Levenick will offer practical tips on how to safely preserve family photos, doc­uments and memorabilia at the monthly meeting of the Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society, 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 21.

Levenick inherited her first family archive from her grand­mother — a trunk filled with photos, letters, documents, and miscellaneous stuff — and is now the caretaker of sev­eral family collections.

She has adapted professional archival techniques to the family archive situation and shares practical ideas for safely storing and digitizing family collections.

Levenick’s presentation offers best practices for digitizing family keepsakes using scanners and digital camer­as, and basic archival techniques for safely preserving original items economically and easily.

Levenick is the creator of the award-winning family history blog , and author of How to Archive Family Keepsakes: Learn How to Pre­serve Family Photos, Memorabilia and Genealogy Records (Family Tree Books, 2012), and How to Archive Family Photos (Family Tree Books, 2015).

She is a frequent contributor to family history magazines and online publications, and presenter for webinars and workshops. Levenick is the course coordinator for Family Archiving: Heirlooms in the Digital Age at the Gene­alogical Institute of Pittsburgh.

Special Interest Groups meet at 9:30 a.m. for New Member & Beginning Genealogy, Civil War Genealogy, Writers’ Support Group, German Ancestry, Italian Genealogy, Jewish Genealogy, French Canadian Genealogy, Scandinavian Genealogy, Computer Genealogy, and DNA. The monthly meeting starts at 10:30 a.m.

It is not necessary to be a member of the Genealogical Society to attend Levenick’s presentation.

For a calendar of the society’s genealogical events, visit .

— Glenn Avolio for Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society.