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* Below is a form I am asking you to fill out for the class I am taking. Please fill in your information on the form.  Then please answer the questions on the form. I need to hand in this assignment as soon as possible. After the form are some quotes from my class that might help you with your own history stuff. Thanks for your help. Form: Survey for Family History Records * Name of person contacted: Phone #: Relationship to Writer: Date of Contact: Address: . . . . . . . . . . . . Ask your relative if he/she has any of the following. Have him/her list for you what they have by name, and write them down here. 1. Handwritten, typed, or photocopied biographical sketches or life stories (list by name of the subject and by the author, if possible, the length also) 2. Diaries or letters (whose, place, roughly when written) 3. Newspaper obituaries, funeral proceedings 4. Genealogy records, such as a family Bible, genealogy sheets already complied, etc. (list about how many sheets, on which family lines, etc.; be as specific as you can) 5. Photographs useful for study, not only people but also places and buidlings (find out what their family photographs are about, if they are in albums or boxes, and how you might look at them) 6. _object_s that have family history significance such as tools, furniture, appliances, clocks and watches, jewelry, guns, clothing, hair strands, products made by a relative (arts, crafts), books, company letterheards, etc. 7. Documents; certificates (often in scrapbooks or Books of Remembrance) such as birth, marriage, graduation, and death certificates; passports; citizenship or naturalization papers; homestead applications; property deeds; wills; insurance policy applications; military papers, etc. 8. Finance records such as checks, account books, ledgers, bills, receipts, credit accounts, bank passbooks, stocks, bonds, etc. 9. Other records you think the person should be asked about 10. Any recomendations of whom you should contact who might have family records. List by name, address, relationship, and records they are known to have. Quotes; I attended a youth group's heritage fair, where in one large room the young people displayed an array of old family items they brought from home or from their older relatives. I saw scores of old _object_s including a comb, brush, pocket watch, 1870s Bible, World War I uniform, blacksmith's hammer, an antique rifle, tiny eye glasses, school book, diary, letters, tintype portrait, china cup and saucer, World's Fair ribbon, sewing machine, handmade lace doily, handmade quilt, wedding dress, razor, shaving mug and shaving brush, lead toy soldier, necklaces, rings, and lockets. While I marveled at this instant museum, I felt troubled. The display only contained perhaps two or three items per youth. I figured that each youth had four grandparents and eight great-grandparents, or twelve people total, which meant the youth had old _object_s and records from two of the twelve ancestors. Why is there so little from so many people, I wondered? The answer, of course, is simple. Only priceless _object_s are saved. Common everyday items are discarded when they wear out or are broken. Here are the facts-of-life about family possessions: Items need to survive the junk stage in order to become antiques. One generation's stuff that gets stored or lost in garages or trunks or attics for a generation makes it past the junk stage and becomes quaint and even valuable to the third generation. Quote *Plastic-sleeve Photo Albums*. Photographs should not be put into magnetic (press-down page) photo albums. Why are they bad? Because of three elements that are present in them: sticky adhesives, cheap paper, and acidity. The plastic pages' chemicals react with the photograph's chemicals, damaging the photo's image. Most magnetic page albums discolor quickly and lose their stickiness. The stiff plastic-sleeve type (louvered, with each end open) photo albums are best. When mounting photographs in an album, be sure that photographs don't kiss other photographs across from them when the album is closed. Put a protective tissue sheet between the pages. Photo corners are okay but are acidic as are most cheap-paper photo albums. Save negatives, from which new photographs can be made in the future, if needed. *Slides*. Slides can deteriorate rapidly when stored under the wrong conditions. Their lifetime with good color can be as short as fourteen years but is much longer if stored properly