David W. Jackson is director, archivist, and founder of The Orderly Pack Rat. David has thirty-one years of experience in personal manuscript collection. His childhood hobby of genealogy became the catalyst for his future career. In 1993 he was graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in historic preservation. David founded The Orderly Pack Rat, an historical research and consulting service, in 1996. His belief and practice is to encourage personal and organizational awareness in archives while emphasizing the significance of documenting our daily activities as history. David is author and publisher of Direct Your Letters to San Jose: The California Gold Rush Letters of James and David Lee Campbell, 1849-1852.