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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aurora" data-source="post: 3627175" data-attributes="member: 6418">DannyA gave some great advice. Some things you may want to have shadow-boxed and sealed. Just remember in everything you do that someday these things will be passed on to people in your family that don't who your grandmother is. So make sure that (if possible) full names are somehow associated with different pieces and if you know the story behind a piece to somehow include it for future generations. I know I have boxes and boxes of photos and mementos many over a hundred years old from past family members and it saddens me that I have no idea who many of the people are or anything about them. Guess that's one of the reasons I started scrapbooking myself. For some of the more delicate items you have, you might consider scanning them and/ or photographing them that way should the items ever become damaged, they are not completely lost. This would be nice as well if you have several family members who might like copies of such memorabilia. Even the children in your family will someday grow up to be adults that might like a piece of family history. If that's the case, photograph and scan everything you can before sealing it up. If you have the time and interest, you could even scrapbook the files digitally and have them printed by someplace like <a href="http://www.shutterfly.com/shop/product_c18000/Photo_Books" target="_blank">shutterfly</a> for family members and you will have instant birthday or Christmas gifts. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />If you do decide to physically scrapbook any items. Make sure everything is acid free (pens, background papers, etc) and I would suggest using side loading page protectors such as <a href="http://store.scrapbook.com/ek-ekpp12r01.html" target="_blank">these</a> rather than the top loading ones as top loading ones can let in dust more ealily. Good luck!</blockquote>

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