Genealogy Records at Intersection of Faith, Family History

The State of Tennessee Archives has set conservators like Carol Roberts a daunting task. She not only works to restore and digitize state records back to the 1700s, but also helps the state’s 95 counties with their often poorly preserved records. Millions of birth and wedding certificates, wills, deeds, and tax records; all have to be painstakingly restored and then digitized. "We do cleaning of those historic documents, we preserve them, we stabilize them as best possible," she...

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