Betty,

Whatever you do, do NOT tape the pieces with regular "Scotch" tape. That
will destroy them. You may use acid free, pH neutral archival glue or tape
to mount the pieces on acid free paper. You can find archival supplies many
places, among them are lightimpressionsdirect.com and gaylord.com.

Mary



On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Betty Duke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I have acquired an original document "certifying" my grandparent's marriage
> from the church where my grandparents were married in 1908. My aunt
> carefully folded it into a small square with a note to be careful handling
> it because it was fragile. She carefully wrapped it in a saran wrap kind of
> material.
>
> I opened the package to look at it, and I now have 9 squares of paper.ithas
> disintegrated at the folds. I can match the pieces up, but I was wondering
> if there is a way to do that and preserve the document. I had thought about
> pasting the pieces together on a piece of paper, or taping them together,
> but I am not sure that is a good idea.
>
> Anyone have any idea or thoughts on who I could contact to look at this?
>
> Thanks.
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