Melissa Barker, "The Archive Lady"
Melissa Barker is a Certified Archives Manager and Public Historian currently working at the Houston County, Tennessee, Archives, and is affectionally known as "The Archive Lady" to the genealogy community. She lectures, teaches and writes about the genealogy research process, researching in archives and records preservation. She conducts virtual presentations across the United States and other countries, writes a popular blog entitled A Genealogist in the Archives and is a well-known published book reviewer. She writes a bi-weekly advice column entitled The Archive Lady published at Genealogy Bargains, as well as history pieces for her local newspaper. She has been a professional genealogist for the past 16 years with expertise in Tennessee records, and has researched her own family history for the past 30 years.
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That's in the Archives! Digging Deeper in the Archived Records
Genealogists use archives every day to locate records about their ancestors. Are there records that you are not accessing because you don’t know they exist? Not all records are online, indexed, or microfilmed. Digging deeper in the local and state archives to find unique and relatively unknown records just might be the next step in your genealogy research.
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Loose Records in an Archive: What Are They?
Genealogists use minute books, ledger books, and other bound records that are located at archives, libraries, and genealogical societies. There is also another type of record available called Loose Records that the genealogist should be seeking. Learn what loose records are, what records groups they can be found in, and how they can benefit your research.
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10 Things a Genealogist Should Do Before Leaving a Library or Archive
Have you ever gotten home from a genealogy research trip and said to yourself "I forgot to do that!" Learn the 10 things genealogists should do before they leave a library and archive to make their research trip a success!
