VIRTUAL PROGRAM: TEWKSBURY GENEALOGY GROUP (2 of 2) -- Digital Preservation For Family Historians

Tuesday, December 147:00—8:00 PMOnlineTewksbury Public Library300 Chandler Street, Tewksbury, MA, 01876

**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Meeting via email.** 

The Tewksbury Genealogy Group is open to everyone who's interested in genealogy. Each meeting -- which will take place via Zoom -- consists of a presentation from a guest speaker (typically a professional genealogist), followed by a period where members can briefly share their latest genealogy research, and then the library will share a genealogy resource its patrons can access for free. 

The group will meet twice in December -- December 13 and December 14. The December 14 presentation is "Digital Preservation for Family Historians" with Rhonda Chadwick. What happens to our digital presence after we pass? How do we preserve it for future generations? How do we save email, Facebook postings, word documents, and pictures? This presentation asks audience members to consider these questions and then begins to provide the answers. Fulfilling the Library of Congress’ initiative to have libraries teach patrons how to create a digital legacy, this class touches upon the best file formats for long term preservation, how to save email, social media pages, and websites. We’ll cover audio and video files and talk about digitizing old VHS tapes, papers, photographs and books. Archivists and the Library of Congress worry that there will be a gap in the historical record of the generation that built the digital superhighway’s infrastructure. This course attempts to close that gap and provide the first generation of the computer age with the necessary tools to create a digital legacy. Rhonda Chadwick, owner of LenaSalina Legacy Preservation, is an archivist who has worked at a number of museums, libraries and archives throughout New England including the Rhode Island Historical Society, Brown University and the American Textile History Museum in Lowell.

Register directly on Zoom HERESponsored by the Friends of the Library.

Registration required via Zoom link.