Describing Your Family Memories Guide
+ Bonus Template
Create lasting memories.
Why describe your archives, photos and heirlooms?
Because, essentially, these are your family memories.
Photos, just like your other memories, capture a unique moment from your family history, and they also capture an emotion, a story, a memory. If these memories are not captured and described, they can be lost forever.
When described, these family moments/stories live on and allow us to create beautiful experiences and long-lasting memories for our family.
But, in order to preserve these memories, we have to first describe them.
This resource is going to make the information you provide about your photos more meaningful to family members. And photos are much easier to share with family than great grandma's Sunday dishes! — Salli
About the guide + bonus template
Use the PDF guide and accompanying description template to describe each of your memories (individual items).
You can add, remove or customize information (or the entire template), as needed, depending on your specific memories, the amount of time you have for research, or the information you have on-hand about them.
The description categories mentioned in the guide + bonus template are based on accepted standards for archival description as well as recent studies demonstrating the possibility of including emotions in archival description.
In a nutshell, this description guide and template are based on my 9+ years describing family archives and photos (both professionally, academically and personally)!
What's included?
A PDF guide with instructions and examples on how to describe your memories, including the important categories to include.
A bonus customizable description template, with all of the relevant information in one place (available for download using Microsoft Word or to edit online via Google Docs).
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