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:
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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

There is construction of a new elevator at the front entrance and the Forbes Library is not handicap accessible during this time.  


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