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