Diaries, Journals and Calendars: Preserving and Documenting Your Ancestor’s Day-to-Day Life
Many of our ancestors recorded their day-to-day lives in diaries, journals, and calendars. Learn how to extract all the wonderful genealogical and historical information contained these sources and how to physically preserve them for the next generation.
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Melissa Barker
Melissa Barker is a Certified Archives Manager and Public Historian currently working at the Houston County, Tennessee Archives. She lectures, teaches, and writes about the genealogy research process, researching in archives and records preservation. She conducts virtual webinar presentations across the United States for genealogical and historical societies. She writes a popular blog entitled A Genealogist in the Archives and is a well–known published genealogy Book Reviewer. She is a Professional Genealogist with an expertise in Tennessee records. She has been researching her own family history for the past 32 years.
