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From: "astaley" <>
Subject: Deceased Genealogist's Work Files
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:32:12 -0500
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All,

I am in need of some expert advice.

In 1992, a member of our genealogical society (a professional, certified
genealogist) passed away. The Society was given about 5 boxes of items and a
collection of books from her estate. At the time, someone went through the
boxes and marked (in general) what they contain. Nothing more has basically
been done with them.

Our Society is in the process of "thinking" about merging with another local
society and several of us are trying to clean-up and clear out our office.

Now the question - what do we do with the professional's work? The boxes
contain her personal genealogy and professional work. There are letters from
the 1970's (that I have found so far) with clients. There are *lots* of
pedigree charts. There are composision notebooks of notes (not necessarily
broken down by personal/professional). There are 3x5 client cards. There are
slides (probably from presentations). There are typed family histories (does
not indicate by whom they were written).

She was an LDS member and probably some/most of her own research is filed
with them, but to figure out which might be a time consuming endeavor.

I don't want to pitch all of it; a lot of work went into gathering the data.
However, I don't want to do anything that would violate someone's privacy.

Help! Any advice will be most appreciated. If we decide to merge, the other
Society does not have a lot of storage space.

Ann Staley


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