Donate your family records to the TJHS Collection at the Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.  Acceptable items are listed below:

• Artistic Materials: Posters; drawings; photographs.  All photographs must have accompanying names and locations of persons shown in the photographs.

• Business Papers: No active records that are needed for operation. Includes correspondence; ledgers or record books; classified files, financial records such as receipts, invoices, and inventories; legal record such as contracts, deeds, and court records; flyers; calendars; schedules; posters; memos; business cards; photographs; and albums with identified photos.

• Literary Productions/Writings: Essays, poetry, works of fiction, and speeches.

• Organizational Records: Charters, membership lists, minutes, yearbooks, programs, press releases, correspondence, newsletters, newspapers, and brochures.

• Personal Papers: Family trees; histories; letters; diaries; journals; passports; naturalization papers; birth certificates; death certificates; records and certificates of marriage, circumcision, consecration, bar/bat mitzvah, or confirmation; war records; recorded or written oral history, interviews, or memoirs; legal records such as wills, estate materials, deeds, court records, and contracts; identified photographs and albums with identified photos.

• Scrapbook Materials: Report cards, graduation certificates, invitations, programs.

• Printed Materials: Newspapers, books, pamphlets, posters, and maps.

• Religious Materials: Synagogue records such as minutes, programs, bulletins, records, and membership lists; prayer books; hymnals; identified photographs or albums with identified photos; and cemetery records.

• Sound Materials: Music on disc, cassette tape, or electronic device.