What to keep-what to throw away

[E. Sharp]

I have had a wonderful 25 years collecting my and other family members genealogy. In the old days before all this computer stuff you wrote for records and with computers you printed out everything. I am approaching my mid 80’s and now faced with getting rid of 8 drawers of records. Do I just shred it all or what should I keep for the kids??

BTW I am No. 12 of 12 children. 6 boys, 6 girls. We are now 4 girls in our 80’s still living. My circus family went to the Azores ca 1850 via Italy and then Portugal and then all over those Azores islands having a child on 4 or 5 of them. It took 25 years to find my grandmother’s baptism record a couple of years ago. So never give up!!

Anyhow what do I do with all this paperwork (shred?) and what should I keep.

“E”

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[E. Sharp]

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[Cheri Mello]

Elaine,

If you sourced you stuff, I'd throw away the sources. For example, if I said my Manuel Mello was on the 1940 census in New Bedford, Bristol Co, MA, I'd pitch the hard copy of the census. That's plenty of clues for someone to find him again.  Likewise about his baptism. If I put he was born on 1 Jan 1887 in Ribeira das Tainhas, Sao Miguel island, Azores and my source was his baptism, that's enough for someone to duplicate your work and find it again. Or at least that's my opinion.

Cheri Mello
Listowner, Azores-Gen
Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada

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[E. Sharp]

Thanks Cheri. The kids don’t seem too interested in any of it and I do have it on my Family Tree Maker. I have a lot of shredding to do....commercial shredders are too inconvenient for me. I told my kids I was leaving everything for them to do and their reply was “mmmmm..no!! I am keeping all close birth, baptism, marriage and death records in binders. And printed FTM family lines.

[Cheri Mello]

See if your local genealogy society wants it. You may consider putting it on a public website such as WikiTree or Ancestry.com for posterity.

Cheri Mello
Listowner, Azores-Gen
Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada

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[Sonia P Pacheco]

I'm pipe in: you can also consider donating ALL of your research to the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives. 

While I agree with Cheri, that good documentation of where information was found is enough for individuals to trace it back, we actually like to see it all! All the birth, marriage, death records; the census printouts; the little notes with family stories! ALL of it! I will always ask if there any any family photographs that can be donated as well (I will happily  make digital copies, if the family wants to retain the originals) and any other documents that speak to the family (correspondence, audio-visual, yearbooks, cards, documents created as part of a business etc). 

For those of you who are not familiar with the archive, you can find more information about us here: https://www.lib.umassd.edu/paa

Individuals interested in donating their archive, can contact me directly. 

Sonia 

Sónia Pacheco

Librarian Archivist, Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives

Library Liaison, Portuguese, History, Foreign Languages

Claire T. Carney Library, UMass Dartmouth

Tel. 508-999.8695

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