Karen, I absolutely agree with you, and I have thought about that very thing. Fortunately, several of my children are interested enough to not trash what I have, and one is actively doing genealogy herself. But for anyone on the list who would not have that assurance, it is very much something to think about and plan for. Dorrice Karen Moss wrote: > A recent message to the list got me to thinking. > > I have been searching for a lost branch of my family for several years. > Finally, a distant cousin said she had run across someone who knew something > of the family, perhaps it was one he was researching himself. Anyway, > unfortunately, the old gentleman passed on before any real info could be > exchanged. This cousin contacted the family (that's how she learned of his > passing) and they were not the least bit interested in genealogy, and as > such, didn't want to be bothered with preserving his information. > > Perhaps it is something we should think about, where our hard-worked-for > information will go in the event of our passing. Perhaps it should be > 'willed' to another family member who is interested in genealogy, or at the > very least, a library or organization which would put it to best use and not > let it be lost. > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > ============================== > The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Tens of millions of individuals... and counting. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ -- MZ