Dear Subscribers:
Occasionally, I will be sending a note to R&R’s subscribers, I promise not many. I thought you should know, July 2016, was a remarkable month! Not only have significant numbers of collections arrived but a new R&R Scholar has been approved. Secondly, Mike Bedenbaugh’s blog series on the Kibler Cabin, was received with enthusiasm and will continue! A video of the project is also being produced and will soon be ready for viewing. Lastly, to top it all off, the R&R website has logged substantial new usage.
Yet a significant number individuals know little or nothing of R&R. A scholar with the USC, recently wrote he had just discovered it and began using its immediately. Another potential donor stated, “I just discovered the site through a Facebook friend.” We are pleased they have found the website but what has taken them so long? On the flip side, a local lady delivered a box of old “family” store journals for preservation, because her children didn’t want them, how rewarding is that?
Your assistance is truly needed to see individuals and organizations in your own backyards are aware of R&R. Take time to assist by spreading the word – a few helpful suggestions:
- Share R&R posts and Facebook pages with your friends…(Encourage them to subscribe.)
- Announce at your civic club meetings and historical society gathers that you enjoy and support R&R…
- Have RootsandRecall.com added to the local archives, library, museum, and historical society’s websites as a resource and research link. Perhaps the one single item you can accomplish which would receive the biggest result!
- Request R&R to provide a program to your historical or genealogy society….(Travel reimbursement required.)
- Encourage attorneys and auctioneers to contact R&R to preserve historic papers and images, rather than tossing them! (It is a free service rendered by R&R which has saved thousands of documents in the past two years.)
Things you may not know about the Roots and Recall website:
- R&R does not collect historic documents or images (They are digitized and turned over to accredited repositories or returned to the lawful owner.)
- R&R is operated totally by volunteers – a Wiki style website for statewide preservation.
- R&R is looking for individuals (as well as organizations), wanting to build their own pages on R&R.
- R&R works with cultural organizations, which routinely use R&R as a vehicle to share data with their members and audience.
Having just started it’s fourth year, the R&R website, is pleased you subscribe to the blog – thanks! Along with the thousands of monthly R&R website users, researchers, and Facebook friends – your continuing words of encouragement are powerful and fuel our preservation efforts. Do contemplate how you too can help shape R&R’s future. Linking it to existing cultural websites in your community is a major step forward – so easy and yet so important!
Warm regards and many thanks for your on going encouragement.
Sincerely yours,
Wade B. Fairey, Sr. R&R’s – Manager (faireyw@rootsandrecall.com) 7.28.16