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FW: Arrangement for a MS collection



Dear Rebecca,

If one can think of the entire family as a "corporation" and then arrange
papers according to the creator/originator,in the sense of an office
department, subject matter would probably fall together in one group. I
would guess that a particular subject would be handled mainly by a
particular family member.

With family correspondence, unless there is a meticulously maintained "copy
book" of outgoing correspondnece, there would only be one half of the
picture: the incoming responses. Corporate correspondence would have carbon
copies of outgoing correspondence as well as the (original) responses.

The main problem occurs when two family members are writing to each other.
Keeping letters with the originator then causes the loss of the
request/response pairing. A researcher is obligated to simultaneously check
two persons' files for chronological matching. One way out of this is to
insert photocopies of the request/response in the other correspondent's
file...very messy.

With regards to deeds,etc., I would put these in a property/house series,
not with a person, since the house was occupied by more than one family
member, usually.

Gunnar M. Berg, YIVO Institute Archives

-----Original Message-----
From: Fitzgerald, Rebecca [mailto:rfitzger@MSMARY.EDU]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 1:28 PM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Arrangement for a MS collection


I have been debating this question and thought I would turn to the list
for its collective wisdom.

How would you arrange a manuscript collection containing the papers of
several generations of one family? ....................

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