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Almost everything that could happen to an old document, has happened. The above image is one of the more spectacular examples. Here are a few more examples of some of the old document we have run into while serving as Senior Missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and FamilySearch at the Maryland State Archives.
Here is an example of a document that is close to being lost.
When we see documents such as this one, we a grateful for the opportunity to help preserve these valuable records before they disappear. Here is another document from a famous person. In this case, Edwin Booth, the brother of John Wilkes Booth, and a famous actor during the mid-1800s.
When we find documents such as this, we involve the staff of the Archives because they are interested in knowing about these documents since they do not know that they have them. You might notice the Document Stamp in the left-hand corner. This is the way the government collected the filing fee for this probate filing in the court.
Here are some other examples. This one shows some beautiful handwriting. You can click on the photos to see an enlarged copy.
We process the documents as they come from the Archives by putting them in folders for sorting. We then need to unfold the documents so they can be digitized. This box shows the sorted documents before they are unfolded. These are the most difficult to handle because they are literally crumbling apart.
Most of the documents are routine court matters, but every so often we find some that stand out and are interesting. Here is the probate record for Frederick Douglass.
Some of the documents are so large they take special handling to digitize them in parts.
We often find documents that are very difficult to read but we get used to reading all kinds of documents and I can read this one without too much difficulty.
We have to remove all the metal fasteners from the paper because they corrode over time and ruin the documents.
We have removed thousands of fasteners. Here is where we work on the documents.
This is another example of a hard to read document. It is also difficult to get photos of the documents because the Archives has so many different lighting sources and they all cast shadows.
This is where we spend our days digitizing.
We have only one more month left on our mission. If there is anything you want to ask or know about that I haven't covered, get busy and send me an email or comment.
Almost everything that could happen to an old document, has happened. The above image is one of the more spectacular examples. Here are a few more examples of some of the old document we have run into while serving as Senior Missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and FamilySearch at the Maryland State Archives.
Here is an example of a document that is close to being lost.
When we see documents such as this one, we a grateful for the opportunity to help preserve these valuable records before they disappear. Here is another document from a famous person. In this case, Edwin Booth, the brother of John Wilkes Booth, and a famous actor during the mid-1800s.
When we find documents such as this, we involve the staff of the Archives because they are interested in knowing about these documents since they do not know that they have them. You might notice the Document Stamp in the left-hand corner. This is the way the government collected the filing fee for this probate filing in the court.
Here are some other examples. This one shows some beautiful handwriting. You can click on the photos to see an enlarged copy.
We process the documents as they come from the Archives by putting them in folders for sorting. We then need to unfold the documents so they can be digitized. This box shows the sorted documents before they are unfolded. These are the most difficult to handle because they are literally crumbling apart.
Most of the documents are routine court matters, but every so often we find some that stand out and are interesting. Here is the probate record for Frederick Douglass.
We have to remove all the metal fasteners from the paper because they corrode over time and ruin the documents.
We have removed thousands of fasteners. Here is where we work on the documents.
This is another example of a hard to read document. It is also difficult to get photos of the documents because the Archives has so many different lighting sources and they all cast shadows.
This is where we spend our days digitizing.
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