{"id":3943,"date":"2015-12-07T08:40:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T14:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3943"},"modified":"2015-12-07T08:40:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T14:40:32","slug":"uniquifying-and-maximizing-the-chance-they-take-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/07\/uniquifying-and-maximizing-the-chance-they-take-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Uniquifying and Maximizing the Chance They Take It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are considering donating your genealogical material to a library or archives, ask first. Do not just make the donation in your will. Not all facilities are willing or able to take genealogical materials. Then consider or do the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>organize<\/strong> your materials. Libraries usually do not want unorganized boxes of random materials on dead people. The only people who can get by with donating unorganized materials are people who are well-known, influential, and well-connected.<\/li>\n<li><strong>uniquify<\/strong> your materials. &#8220;Uniquify&#8221; is not a word, but if all your materials consist of unsourced photocopies of local records and published materials, the library may simply not want it. Even if it is organized. Ask yourself, &#8220;how unique is this material?&#8221; The more unique, the more likely a facility is to take it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>write<\/strong> out conclusions. Written up summaries of information and conclusions (with cited sources)&#8211;even if not actually &#8220;published&#8221; but simply printed and bound in book form&#8211;are more likely to be accepted by a library or an archives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are considering donating your genealogical material to a library or archives, ask first. Do not just make the donation in your will. Not all facilities are willing or able to take genealogical materials. Then consider or do the following: organize your materials. Libraries usually do not want unorganized boxes of random materials on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}