I have just received a box full of letters written from about 1900 to 1930. Some are very brittle and turning brown. Many are folded in their original envelopes. What is the best way for me to preserve them? I would like to transcribe the letters and share them with others who might be interested. But I do not know what is the best way to share them. The letters include every day happenings: weddings attended, babies being born, soldiers being sent away, Christmas presents and the like. The majority of the letters were written by Jemima Heddle (b.1846), daughter of Edward Ellicott Heddle and Frances Sutherland, to my grandmother Jane Hughes Heddle, her niece. Other letters were written by other family members. Do you think anyone would be interested in their contents? Also I received the funeral notice for Jemima Heddle from her sister Jean (Jane?), which included the name of the cemetery where she is buried. I think that other members of the cemetery might be buries there. How can I find out about who is buried in a cemetery in Edinburgh? It may take me a long time to transcribe the letters from Jemima Heddle because her writing is so stylized I can barely read it. Thanks for any help you can give me. Margaret VanAuker mvanauker@hughes.net

My suggestion is that you contact your local museum or archives and ask the archivist how to preserve and store the letters. You are lucky, I only dream of such a find. Susanne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betsy VanAuker" <mvanauker@hughes.net> To: <orkney@rootsweb.com> Sent: 13 October, 2008 2:41 PM Subject: [ORKNEY] help needed > I have just received a box full of letters written from about 1900 to 1930. > Some are very brittle and turning brown. Many are folded in their original > envelopes. What is the best way for me to preserve them? > > I would like to transcribe the letters and share them with others who might > be interested. But I do not know what is the best way to share them. The > letters include every day happenings: weddings attended, babies being born, > soldiers being sent away, Christmas presents and the like. The majority of > the letters were written by Jemima Heddle (b.1846), daughter of Edward > Ellicott Heddle and Frances Sutherland, to my grandmother Jane Hughes > Heddle, her niece. Other letters were written by other family members. Do > you think anyone would be interested in their contents? > > Also I received the funeral notice for Jemima Heddle from her sister Jean > (Jane?), which included the name of the cemetery where she is buried. I > think that other members of the cemetery might be buries there. How can I > find out about who is buried in a cemetery in Edinburgh? > > It may take me a long time to transcribe the letters from Jemima Heddle > because her writing is so stylized I can barely read it. > > Thanks for any help you can give me. > > Margaret VanAuker > mvanauker@hughes.net > > > > ------------------ > List Archives, information on contacting list administrator, Subscribing and UnSubscribing can be found at: > > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/SCT/ORKNEY.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORKNEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > _______________________________________ > No viruses found in this incoming message > Scanned by iolo AntiVirus 1.5.5.5 > http://www.iolo.com > _______________________________________ No viruses found in this outgoing message Scanned by iolo AntiVirus 1.5.5.5 http://www.iolo.com

Is it possible for you to scan the letters and save them on your computer, that would allow you to work on them without doing them any more damage. Willie Sinclair 2008/10/13 Betsy VanAuker <mvanauker@hughes.net>: > I have just received a box full of letters written from about 1900 to 1930. > Some are very brittle and turning brown. Many are folded in their original > envelopes. What is the best way for me to preserve them? > > I would like to transcribe the letters and share them with others who might > be interested. But I do not know what is the best way to share them. The > letters include every day happenings: weddings attended, babies being born, > soldiers being sent away, Christmas presents and the like. The majority of > the letters were written by Jemima Heddle (b.1846), daughter of Edward > Ellicott Heddle and Frances Sutherland, to my grandmother Jane Hughes > Heddle, her niece. Other letters were written by other family members. Do > you think anyone would be interested in their contents? > > Also I received the funeral notice for Jemima Heddle from her sister Jean > (Jane?), which included the name of the cemetery where she is buried. I > think that other members of the cemetery might be buries there. How can I > find out about who is buried in a cemetery in Edinburgh? > > It may take me a long time to transcribe the letters from Jemima Heddle > because her writing is so stylized I can barely read it. > > Thanks for any help you can give me. > > Margaret VanAuker > mvanauker@hughes.net > > > > ------------------ > List Archives, information on contacting list administrator, Subscribing and UnSubscribing can be found at: > > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/SCT/ORKNEY.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORKNEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Margaret, You indicate that Jemima Heddle was buried in Edinburgh. There is a range of books and CDs produced by or available through the Scottish Genealogy Society, Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh which gives details of the burials in many of the Edinburgh graveyards, and these might be available in your local Family History Centre. Alternatively, if you can let me know which cemetery she was buried in I can try and find details, although it may be after the cut off date for transcription! Regards, Bruce Gorie On 13/10/2008, Betsy VanAuker <mvanauker@hughes.net> wrote: > > I have just received a box full of letters written from about 1900 to 1930. > Some are very brittle and turning brown. Many are folded in their original > envelopes. What is the best way for me to preserve them? > > I would like to transcribe the letters and share them with others who might > be interested. But I do not know what is the best way to share them. The > letters include every day happenings: weddings attended, babies being born, > soldiers being sent away, Christmas presents and the like. The majority of > the letters were written by Jemima Heddle (b.1846), daughter of Edward > Ellicott Heddle and Frances Sutherland, to my grandmother Jane Hughes > Heddle, her niece. Other letters were written by other family members. Do > you think anyone would be interested in their contents? > > Also I received the funeral notice for Jemima Heddle from her sister Jean > (Jane?), which included the name of the cemetery where she is buried. I > think that other members of the cemetery might be buries there. How can I > find out about who is buried in a cemetery in Edinburgh? > > It may take me a long time to transcribe the letters from Jemima Heddle > because her writing is so stylized I can barely read it. > > Thanks for any help you can give me. > > Margaret VanAuker > mvanauker@hughes.net > > > > ------------------ > List Archives, information on contacting list administrator, Subscribing > and UnSubscribing can be found at: > > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/SCT/ORKNEY.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ORKNEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >