JGSCT - About Our Next Program
When: Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Time: 7:00 pm EST
How to Attend:
- Virtual via Zoom
- Registration is free for both members and non-members. To register for the Zoom link, click here.
Speaker: Marian Burk Wood
Program Description:
How to Curate Your Family History Collection
Want to keep your family history items and information safe for the future? This presentation, with lively case studies, shows why and how to curate your genealogy collection. The first step is to identify what, exactly, to keep in your hands. Next, learn how to approach an appropriate institution that may be interested in having an ancestral artifact or specific ancestral information from your collection. Following this process, you can successfully preserve parts of your family’s history by placing them (physically or digitally) in safe hands/many hands, such as in an archive, a museum, a library, a university, an historical society, or a genealogical society.
About Our Speaker
Marian Burk Wood is the author of the genealogy book Planning a Future for Your Family's Past and an active genealogy blogger at: https://ClimbingMyFamilyTree.blogspot.com. She has been researching her family tree for 28 years, with a special focus on documenting and sharing ancestry history for today and tomorrow. Marian's ancestors are represented in the collections of the Imperial War Museum (England), U.S. Army Women's Museum, Missouri History Museum, Tufts Library, Cleveland History Center, West Virginia University, and other institutions.
