ALBANY - Worried about those crumbling family letters and fading photographs? Find out how to save them from the ravages of time with a free consultation from The Document Doctor on Wednesday, October 15th from 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. at the North Collins Senior Center in North Collins and 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. at the Civil Defense Building at 139 Niagara Street in Lockport.
The consultation will include advice on how to preserve old photographs, documents, scrapbooks and other family records. Free archives kits, courtesy of Gaylord Bros., an archival supply company from Syracuse, New York, will be available to the first thirty people who participate at each site.
The kit contains a variety of supplies and information helpful to anyone interested in making sure their family records are preserved for future generations.
The Document Doctor is offered free to the public by the New York State Archives as part of its year-long celebration of its twenty-fifth anniversary. It has also been timed to coincide with New York Archives Week, October 12-18, a statewide recognition of the importance of archives to our lives.
James Tammaro, an archives and records management specialist with the State Archives, and Heidi Bamford, archivist at the Western New York Documentary Heritage Program, will serve as Document Doctors, contributing their combined experience of over 35 years in the archival field to offer advice on the care of family records.
Registration for The Document Doctor is not necessary, but those who are interested in obtaining a free archives kit are encouraged to arrive early. For more information, contact Heidi Bamford at (716) 633-0705, ext. 114 or James Tammaro at (716) 847-7903.
The New York State Archives, a program of the State Education Department, preserves and make accessible the essential recorded evidence – past and present – of New York’s governments, organizations, peoples and events.At its Albany facility, the Archives cares for more than 140 million archival records of New York State government dating from the 1630s to the present.
Through its nine regional offices and its support of the Documentary Heritage
Program, the State Archives provides services to help 4,300 local governments
and 3,000 community organizations care for their records. More information about
the State Archives can be obtained via www.nysarchives.org