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Documents - to laminate or not to laminate?

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Macushla

Macushla Report 10 Feb 2007 12:35

Hello, all, I'm new to the site and sure that this will be the first of many questions! Tonight I'm wondering whether it is best to laminate them documents, including certificates, to best protect them? Thanks very much. Sue

Macushla

Macushla Report 10 Feb 2007 12:38

Many thanks, Kate. I can't believe I actually typed 'them documents'! Cheers.

Kate

Kate Report 10 Feb 2007 12:38

I'm not sure. If it was a really old certificate, and an original, I think I would be too scared to laminate it. I keep mine in plastic wallets in a ring binder, personally.

Suein10b

Suein10b Report 10 Feb 2007 12:43

Certificates need to kept in acid free pockets. I have bought packs of these from WHSmiths Sue

Mandy in Wiltshire

Mandy in Wiltshire Report 10 Feb 2007 12:49

No, definitely don't laminate any old documents. I've been tempted because it looks so nice! Use archive quality document sleeves - look at one of the genealogy shop sites for ideas. Mandy :)

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 10 Feb 2007 12:49

No - definitely do not laminate them. As suggested you can buy acid free pockets from W.H. Smith for about £1.99 for 50. Kath. x

MrsBucketBouquet

MrsBucketBouquet Report 10 Feb 2007 13:07

If they are just modern day copies then yes I would. You can use them as table place mats LOL What a great converstion peice! and you will have a captured audience LOL No Ice cream untill you read the death cert of great Uncle Berti!!! and the birth of great great Aunt Aggy! LOL Gerri x

Researching:
Pool/Poole?Overs/Hovers/Hovard?Bucket/Bouquet? Thank goodness i havent got a Smiff!........yet

Chris in Sussex

Chris in Sussex Report 10 Feb 2007 13:12

Gerri But what about all those 'gruesome' death certs.....Might put the faint hearted off their ice cream! But then again....All the more ice cream for those who got just the 'nice' birth ones :))))) Chris

Researching:
Avatar...My darling Dad. 1931-2019 'Take nothing on its looks, take everything on evidence. There is no better rule' Charles Dickens, Great Expectations. 'A brickwall is a problem that you haven't solved yet' Dave Annal http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/brick-walls-and-lost-ancestors/

Macushla

Macushla Report 10 Feb 2007 13:28

Thanks very much to you all - I will be on the lookout for archive-quality, acid-free protective pockets : )! Now all I have to do is find all of those certificates and things ...