{"id":8231,"date":"2018-12-31T22:07:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T22:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8231"},"modified":"2018-12-31T22:07:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T22:07:20","slug":"will-they-be-cleaning-mothers-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8231","title":{"rendered":"Will They Be Cleaning Mother&#8217;s House?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, I wrote a piece entitled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2091\">Cleaning Mother&#8217;s House<\/a>.&#8221; The fictionalized piece was created from several real life snippets that have been passed along to me over the years.<\/p>\n<p>It still should give those who haven&#8217;t thought about what will happen to their genealogical materials a reason to pause. Preserving your materials is something that needs to be done by the creator of those materials before it is too late. Leaving it to your survivors&#8211;even with a will&#8211;is no guarantee it happens.<\/p>\n<p>Unorganized materials are more likely to be discarded.<\/p>\n<p>Materials that are simply copies of records available elsewhere are usually not desired by libraries and archives. They want unique materials.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t let your materials become another snippet for an update to\u00a0 &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2091\">Cleaning Mother&#8217;s House<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, I wrote a piece entitled &#8220;Cleaning Mother&#8217;s House.&#8221; The fictionalized piece was created from several real life snippets that have been passed along to me over the years. It still should give those who haven&#8217;t thought about what will happen to their genealogical materials a reason to pause. Preserving your materials is something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}