| Families are the cells of society. Family harmony brings social harmony, and family stability promotes social stability; civilization of home changes social civilization and progress of home drives social progress. With the development of the people's material and spiritual life, people attach importance to scientific management of a family and are eager to know cultural construction in their families. How to manage a family systematically, to accumulate more valuable historic and cultural wealth for family and to make them play an important role in the improvement of family material and spiritual life? Establishing and popularizing of family archives are a good way.Family archives are all kinds of historical records belong to a family or an individual, which come from family life and social activities , and are preserved for practical use and historical study. Establishing family archives can contribute to managing family affairs scientifically, vindicating families' lawful rights and interests and resolve families' conflicts effectively. It can also contribute to the close relationship among family members, the development of virtue and the enhancement of cultural quality of home. In addition, the establishment of family archives can also enrich state archives resources greatly and expand the archival departments' scope of services. Besides all above, advocating the establishiment of family archives has important and far-reaching significance for harmonious society and family.In the paper, author have done depth social survey about willingness,main influencing factors and usage of establishing family archives by using questionnaire,comparative law and statistica act. We can know many people don't know family archives and have all kinds of worries due to their weak consciousness of archives and the fact that the family archives is a kind of new thing for ordinary people. So the work of establishing family archives has a long way to go.Author went to Jinan City Archives Bureau and Lixia District Achives Bureau to conduct research and take Lixia District Achives Bureau as an example to conclude the specific practices of popularizing family archives. Firstly, raising awareness of archival departments and archivists. To fully aware of the important significance of family archives work at present. Secondly, coorperating closly among departments to form social force. Archives departments should coorperate with relative departments to promote family archives work based on gaining understanding and support from families. Thirdly, publicizing family archives strongly and making common families know how to make family archives. Archives departments must publicize family archives by all kinds of ways in order to let people learn family archives and know how to make it. Fourthly, setting the typical families as an example and playing its examplary role to expand the scope of establishing family archives. Fifthly, capture support, aim at the future and establish the long—term mechanism of sustainable development.This paper begins from the origin and historical development of family archives and summarize the theories and management methords of family archives. It emphasizes the far-reaching significance of establishing family archives in a new era, and the prospects of popularizing and developing family archives. |
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