Appendix A - Society of American Archivists

2.7.5. Where the administrative/biographical history is provided within the description,provide administrative/biographical history at the highest levels of description asinstructed in rules 10.9-10.36.2.7.6. At the highest level of description, give information about the history of thecorporate body(ies), person(s), or family(ies) that created, assembled, accumulated,and/or maintained and used the material as a whole.2.7.7. Optionally, at subsequent levels of description, if the creator of the subordinateunit is different from the creator of the material as a whole, give information about thehistory of the corporate body(ies), person(s), or family(ies) that created, assembled,accumulated, and/or maintained and used that subordinate unit.2.7.8. When primary responsibility for the creation, assembly, accumulation, and/ormaintenance and use of the materials is shared between two or more corporate bodies, ortwo or more persons, or two or more families, create separate administrative/biographicalhistories for each corporate body, person, or family.2.7.9. When primary responsibility for the creation, assembly, accumulation, and/ormaintenance and use of the materials is shared between two or more members of afamily, create separate biographical histories for the family and for each person.(-9-3,4*+)*=),7-)(G5N'9-