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i took hg's advice and started organizing the mess my house has become. and in the process stumbled upon some interesting things.

i found many pictures from the 1800's of family members. one i am sure is from 1890, it is the wedding photo of my great great grandparents. along with it, i found their original wedding certificate. i also found the pictures of my great great grandmothers, parents. and photos of my dad in 1923,1924. i am so glad my family is into writing on the back of photo's. they not only state the names but the date of the photo. my great grandfather was a sculpture r, he did the atlas piece, which one see's in so many photo's, and is attributed to greece. its not, its in germany, where he made it. but its in east germany, so many never saw it. only photo's. there is one picture of all the fellows he worked with, including 3 of his sons. my grandmother was the next to last of 12 surviving kids. so her oldest brother was 22 when she was born. he looks to be about that age in the photo.

so my question is, how do i preserve this stuff for my kids and so on. the photo of the sculpting class is already very faded. ironically the older photos are not faded at all. they are on that really hard cardboard. but the marriage certificate is very fragile, at best. someone already tried to fix it, there is tape around the edges.

so can anyone steer me into the right direction to preserve this stuff?