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| Image that accompanied Washington Times version of the article by Barbara L Salisbury |
Archives
are a wonderful place to do genealogy research! Though, most of us probably don’t think too
much about what it takes to manage an archive or what happens when an archive
runs out of storage space!
This has
happened in Maryland
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Maryland
State Archives collection is among the largest in the country with nearly 400
years of history, including Colonial-era paintings, keepsakes of the state’s
governors, and thousands of land, court and genealogy records.
With all that history, the Archives
has run out of space.
The agency first filled its Annapolis Baltimore City
All of the facilities are now full,
and state archivists have been pushing for more space since 2005...
Read the full article.
Do you know
of other archives facing a similar space crunch?
When such a
thing happens, what can we suggest to people in terms of where they can safely,
securely and for perpetuity store their family treasures?
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