• Assess your collection and identify a strategy for moving forward.

• Address storage needs with recommendations that fit your space and resources.

• Explore digitization options for photographs, documents, and recordings.

• Advise you on archival projects, from defining your goals to mapping out practical next steps.

• Plan for the long-term care of your collection.

• Connect you with libraries, museums, and archives and help you navigate those relationships.

NAP offers basic genealogical research to help you:

• Trace family relationships and learn more about the people and places that shaped your family’s history.

• Investigate family stories and specific questions using census records, birth and marriage records, and historical newspapers.

• Identify next steps based on what you’ve found and what you still want to learn.

• Create a plan for organizing your genealogical records so you can track sources, build on your findings, and share what you discover.

NAP offers personalized oral history interviews to help you:

• Record your own story or the stories of your family or community in the voices of the people who lived them.

• Reflect on milestones, everyday moments, traditions, and unexpected turns through a thoughtful, guided conversation.

• Keep a personal recording to revisit and share as you wish, so you can hear a familiar voice, a laugh, and the way only that person tells a story.

NAP offers workshops and speaking engagements that invite people to explore how to document, preserve, and share their histories.

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Topics include

• Caring for family photographs and papers.

• Developing community archives.

• Ethical issues around archives.

• Planning for what happens to your personal collections as part of estate planning.