General thoughts

Hi Kelly, I like that you've broken it down with uses and challenges. Echoing what others have said, it'd be great to see more about non Christian/Jewish examples. You touch briefly on Wiccanism but there are also other large faith groups such as Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Tao etc. and it'd be really interesting to hear about their institutional recordkeeping/archiving. Heck, even something like the church of the jedi could be interesting if there was any information on their archival practices out there!

You might also consider the challenge of a church (etc.) depositing records into a public archives and how there might be differing ideas about access/privacy etc. Church records have been really useful to genealogists as well which might be worth mentioning.

There are a few small typos/grammatical errors throughout the page - I won't point them out, just suggest a thorough proofread at the end of the assignment.

Hi Adena,

Thanks for the feedback, I agree about including non Christian/Jewish examples. I've included a Canadian Buddhist archives as my third-case study and I'm working to include more examples throughout the wiki. A lot of work on non Christian/Jewish and their relationship to the archival community has been done by the TNA. Since my original focus was North America, all my case studies are from North America but I feel that's limiting in some regards. I've considered 1-2 more case studies of British faith archives that are examples of both other faiths but also non-traditional archives (e.g. digital archives) I will be including these examples as I expand my wiki but if you (or anyone) has thoughts on including more case-studies to broaden the scope of examples included I would like to hear them.

Regards,

Kelly

Forgot to include this in the original comment but thanks for pointing out genealogists. They're not discussed in the literature much but many faith-based archival websites include information for genealogists and I'll include a section about them under "Uses"