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		<title>Ermadene Follows My Advice, Saves Family Photos from Destruction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know why you should follow my advice? Because I know what I&#8217;m talking about, that&#8217;s why. Ermadene is one of my star pupils. Not only did she pay attention during our teleclasses, she followed through on my advice and moved her irreplaceable family photos away from a known hazard. Best of all, Ermadene was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Organize Photos Like an Archivist, Part 2: Three Examples of Minimal Level Description (Box &amp; Folder Level)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I argued that item level description can be like accidentally ending up on a freight train to crazytown &#8211;  especially if your family archive is BIG and it includes boxes n&#8217; boxes n&#8217; boxes of historic treasures. This is also true if you&#8217;ve been left with an alarming number of unidentified [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Organize Photos Like an Archivist Part 1: Level of Description</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year around the &#8220;Gotta Get Organized!&#8221; time of year, I give away one free information product that helps folks just like you organize photo collections. This year, I asked my email list subscribers and readers to tell me about their greatest information need. We narrowed it down to two choices, and &#8220;How to Organize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everyday History: LBJ Orders Pants (Now with animation!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LBJ Orders Pants. Now with animation! Adam and Jesse, the dapper charmers behind this video aren&#8217;t in the business of making history engaging and interesting,  but they did a bang-up job of it, anyway. THEREFORE, I would like to: Buy them a Wisconsin beer. Nominate this video for SAA&#8217;s &#8220;I Found It! In the Archives&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Organize Photos: Shocking (?) Archival Advice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Re: The "?" in the title: Although it comes as a surprise to many people, this information and advice is not even remotely shocking if you are an archivist. Just sayin. ] Contrary to popular belief, archivists do not keep everything. Whaaat? An archivist? Throwing things out? Yep. I spent more time learning the art [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Talismanic Aura of Authenticity (Part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh, my. I love that phrase so much I built a whole goshdarn series around it. The Talismanic Aura of Authenticity &#8211; The Series This is Part 1 in a series exploring why certain objects have a kind of power over us. It&#8217;s is the kind of power that transforms an ordinary object into a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newspaper Clippings: Can They Be Saved?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lisa Louise Cooke and I had an interesting chat about how to preserve newspaper clippings. You get to listen in our conversation because we recorded it for Lisa&#8217;s Genealogy Gems podcast. Yay! Episode 83 is ready and waiting for you. Below are my notes from that talk. Before we begin our examination of old clippings, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organizing Photos: Respect Scarcity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier post about how to organize photos, I talked about respecting age. The older the photograph, the harder you should try to find another home for it if you don&#8217;t want to keep it yourself. Part of the reason why you should respect age is because age goes hand in hand with scarcity. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organizing Photos: Respect Age</title>
		<description><![CDATA[. I realize that my advice about tossing photos (&#8220;lose the dreck!&#8221;) can make some folks nervous. If you are one of those people, I want to reassure you that I do not suggest anyone toss out ancestor photos willy-nilly. No way. Respect Age (when you toss photo clutter) &#8220;Respect Age&#8221; &#8211; means just that. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organizing Photos: Presentation is Only the Icing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scrapbooking is a very popular hobby here in the United States. Surely you&#8217;ve seen stunning examples in your own family or group of friends. And who wouldn&#8217;t appreciate a personalized scrapbook made for them by someone they love? What a beautiful, thoughtful gift! Scrapbookers are creative artists who have collectively raised the bar on what [...]]]></description>
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