Another question. I have my mother's daily diaries from 1933-2008. She

[sinkingfeeling]

passed away in 2015 at age 95 1/2. Is there any group or organization that might want them for historical purposes? She lived in rural Ohio until 1958. Then in Florida.

[LakeArenal]

1. I'm sure the local historical society would want it.

Also our library accepts such things too

[niyad]

2. You might want to contact the National women's History Museum.

[Lochloosa]

3. Im sure the Florida Historical Society would love to have them.

https://myfloridahistory.org/default

Ohio most likely has the same.

They use them as reference material for state history.

[csziggy]

5. Or the Florida or Ohio Archives

The Florida Archives has my grandmother's diary from 1925, the first year she lived in Florida. My grandfather had been transferred to become manager of a phosphate mine in the town of Agricola. Now there is nothing left of Agricola since in 1952 the mine company sold the houses and mined the location where the town had been. So anything about that town is of great interest to historians.

Granddad also took a lot of pictures of the town and of the phosphate mines. The state Photographic Archives has scanned nearly all of those for their collection.

[Leghorn21]

4. Ohhh, these old treasures are PRICELESS, aren't they??!!

YES!

I agree that finding the nearest historical society is the right way to go - they can make the best use of such a rare find and preserve it for future generations - I did this with some of my mother’s side of old documents and letters (one letter was 200 years old!! I just looooved “translating” those pieces of history!!)

It shouldn’t be too hard to find homes in both Ohio and Florida for your mother’s historical “take” on her times, best wishes!!!