Preserving Digitized Files

If it's worth remembering, it's worth keeping. If it's worth keeping, it's worth digitizing. If it's worth digitizing, smart people will back up their digitized files to the cloud at a place like Our Heritage Vault.

Thank You for Your Service

World War I Military Service
Recognition Certificate from
the Kennedy Administration.

This Friday is Veterans Day. Do you best to find a vet and thank him or her for serving our country. The world is a whole lot better off because of them. This week's issue of Our Heritage Preservation salutes our veterans and urges family members to gather the memories of their family members who served. Too many veterans, especially World War II veterans, returned home, found peace within their families, and became silent about what they experienced. It was nearly 60 years after the war ended before America dedicated the national World War II Memorial in honor of them. News broadcaster Tom Brokaw dubbed them the Greatest Generation, celebrating their stories, and lifted the participants a shroud of silence.

Vietnam era veterans also returned home in silence as the country looked for a rationale for that war.

Wars may be popular or unpopular, but the warriors always deserve our respect and thanks. 

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Thanksgiving Menu Theme: Family History

The Holiday Season is the perfect time to reconnect with family members and learn about your heritage. Getting people to talk about their lives and experiences can be difficult though, so our latest issue of Our Heritage Preservation offer a pre-holiday menu of ideas to get your conversations flowing. It's entitled, On Your Holiday Menu: Family History. 

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Have a Memorable Day!

Steve

Is There a Future President in Your Family?

Unless your Address is:

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

Washington, DC

You need 

SOS: Saving Our (Great American) Stories

A Quick Start Summary

The President of the United States lives and works at The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC. Official photographers and the news media document his activities, and an army of assistants help the President perform his duties while creating records of his accomplishments. After the President leaves office, the Archivist of the United States takes custody of those records and they become the basis for a Presidential Library.

There are currently 13 Presidential Libraries that serve as repositories for preserving and providing access to the papers, records, and other historical materials of U.S. Presidents. The records of Presidents prior to Herbert Hoover are located at the Library of Congress and other repositories near where they lived. At the dedication of his library in 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt said, 

“To bring together the records of the past and to house them in buildings where they will be preserved for the use of men and women in the future, a Nation must believe in three things. It must believe in the past. It must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future."

These materials tell the stories of famous men (and someday soon, women) and their achievements. The libraries serve as museums providing texture to the history of a President during his administration as well as before and after.

Since you and your family don’t have the National Archives saving and preserving your family’s history, you need to do it yourself. SOS: Saving Our (Great American) Stories--A Quick Start Summary will help you identify, protect, and preserve photographs, color slide, videos, important documents, and much, much more. It will provide you with ideas about ways in which your family can document the evidence of your lives and preserve it for the future.

If your daughter, son, granddaughter, or grandson plans to become President of the United States one day, today is the day that you need to start preserving the story of her or his formative years for the Presidential Library in her or his future years.

Sign up now for Our Heritage Preservation, a FREE electronic magazine delivered to your email inbox, that will provide you with easy ways to preserve your stories and fun projects for the whole family. Get your complimentary copy of  SOS: Saving Our (Great American) Stories--A Quick Start Summary now. Visit OurHeritagePreservation.com, subscribe, and download your copy now! 

Have a Memorable Day!

Steve

What's "More than Genealogy?"

This week's issue of Our Heritage Preservation is now available at our website. 


Genealogy is typically the study of one's ancestry and recording the data gathered on a family tree. Our Heritage Preservation advocates that as you perform your genealogical research, you also gather photos, original documents, and other interesting pieces of your ancestors' history. As you collect those additional pieces of information, digitize them so that they can be secured and shared with others. 

Get a free subscription to Our Heritage Preservation and every future issue will come directly to your email inbox plus with your subscription order you can obtain a complimentary copy of SOS: Saving our (Great American) Stories, A Quick Start Summary.  

Our Heritage Preservation

This week's issue of Our Heritage Preservation is now available at our website. 

In concert with the office of the U.S. Surgeon General, "Preserving Our Family through Family Health Histories" makes a strong recommendation to gather health data as part of genealogical research. This issue's Action Ideas for Active People provides the first of three steps to help you collect and share your family's health histories.

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Our Heritage Preservation Debuts

Our Heritage Preservation, a new, free magazine, delivered directly to your email inbox debuts early next month in commemoration of National Family Heritage month. Congress first designated October as National Family Heritage Month 10 years ago and during the past decade there was a tremendous increase in interest in genealogy and tracing the roots of one's family.


The new publication offers stories and small projects to assist in creating and preserving family trees while preparing a survival kit for a family's photos, color slides, and important documents. Early subscribers will receive a complimentary, quick start summary of SOS: Saving Our (Great American) Stories.


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