Category Archives: Older Adults

GUEST POST: His Story – and History

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Beyond the Trees

(We are pleased to present another Guest Post from our friend Jan Mueller, a history and genealogy librarian with an interest in personal history. If you have an interesting story about preserving life stories and would like to write a guest … Continue reading →

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Digital Preservation: 7 Tips for Saving your Digital Memories

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Beyond the Trees

By Hillary Doyle It is a truth universally acknowledged that digitization has profoundly changed they way we generate, store, and share information.  Much of our communication (and thus much of our history) is now in digital form.  It is easy … Continue reading →

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Tips on Interviewing Older Adults (Part 2 of 2)

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Beyond the Trees

In Part 1 of this blog, we talked with writer/photographer/archivist Connie Springer about her traveling exhibit and companion book, Positively Ninety: Interviews with Lively Nonagenarians. Over the course of two years Connie sought out active elders – whose minimum age … Continue reading →

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Tips on Interviewing Older Adults (Part 1 of 2)

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Beyond the Trees

Swimming 900 meters across the Ohio River. Singing a soloist role in Handel’s The Messiah. Marching in a peace protest. These are just a few of the myth-busting activities of older adults that writer/photographer/archivist Connie Springer discovered after she interviewed … Continue reading →

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