What to do with original documents when there are no direct descendants

[Marlene G Pactor Lew lewmm@bellsouth.net]

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My mother had an uncle who has no living descendants. He was one of
four siblings. As far as I know, his wife had one sibling, a brother,
who never married and I am not presently researching her family.

I have received some photographs and original documents such as
passports, visas, birth certificates and other official records and
personal memorabilia of this uncle, his wife and two sons.

I am willing to have the material made available to descendants of the
other three siblings but am wondering what to do with the actual
artifacts. For example, there are passports and visas which trace the
journey of this uncle, his wife and son between Zurich and the USA in
1940.

This uncle and his wife were very dear to me. Aside from some articles
Aunty gave me as wedding gifts these photographs and documents which I
received from someone who saved them after their son passed away is all
that remains of them.

Suggestions for proper disposition of these papers to any entity which
can preserve them and/or make them available for research would be
appreciated.

Thank you,
Malka Lew
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On 24 Jan 2017 05:19:26 -0800, Marlene
G Pactor Lew le...@bellsouth.net wrote:
>My mother had an uncle who has no living descendants. [...]

>Aunty gave me as wedding gifts these photographs and documents which I
>received from someone who saved them after their son passed away is all
>that remains of them.
>Suggestions for proper disposition of these papers to any entity which
>can preserve them and/or make them available for research would be
>appreciated.

Are there any archives (State, County etc) where he settled that might
be approached?

When a gravestone for the widow of Heinrich Hertz (she died 1941; he,
after whom megahertz, kilohertz etc are named, in 1894) was put up in
2002 in an English village, ( see letter of left of page 6 of
http://www.ajr.org.uk/journalpdf/2000_january.pdf ), the local archives
had family photographs that had, it was said, been deposited by his
daughter(s) over 30 years earlier.

Cecilia Nyleve

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(ne...@aioe.org ne...@aioe.org) wrote:
[...]

>When a gravestone for the widow of Heinrich Hertz (she died 1941; he,
>after whom megahertz, kilohertz etc are named, in 1894) was put up in
>2002 in an English village, ( see letter of left of page 6 of

>http://www.ajr.org.uk/journalpdf/2000_january.pdf ) [...]

Sorry - I meant 1992 not 2002.