Hi Julie,
I would just deal with the executor and make a note donated in memory of 
by the family of name of person.

Jeff Donahue
Holland Land Office Museum
Batavia NY 14020
585.343.4727

On 9/1/2015 4:34 PM, Julie Bartlett Nelson wrote:
> As an off shoot of the recent query about returning donated items, I 
> am now rethinking how to do an upcoming deed of gift and looking for 
> wisdom.  I will soon be receiving an item from a family that has 
> previously donated manuscript materials and photographs related to 
> their great-grandfather, a local business owner.  The new object was 
> in the home of a woman who passed and the home is being sold which 
> prompted a conversation about the object.  There are 12 
> cousins/grandchildren to the object's owner.  I had planned to do the 
> deed of gift with the executor of the estate/woman selling the home 
> but should I include more family members?
> Thanks,
> Julie
>
> Julie Bartlett Nelson
> Archivist
> Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library & Museum
> Hampshire Room for Local History
> Forbes Library
> 20 West St
> Northampton, MA  01060
> 413-587-1014
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