Five Things I Learned From Working With Archivists

During the past twenty years, I've had the pleasure of working with some wonderful archivists on a range of projects, both in my previous job as IT consultant and project manager at the National Archives and in my current occupation as professional genealogist. I'm not an archivist myself, but picked up some useful tips from them. 1: Context is everything You can't understand a record until you understand it's context. Who created it? Why? When? What were the regulations that led to the … [Read more...]