Hi Brian, there is one central rule in preservation: avoid irreversible measures if at all possible. And that especially applies to any laminating. Don't do that. If it fails, the document is lost and there is no way to bring it back to you. (It has been done and archives are quite unhappy with the results.) If you want to be on the safe side, go to a library or an archive to contact experts for the preservation of paper, fotographs, books. If the documents are precious to you, don't risk anything by amateur methods. Ask the experts. They will recommend special glue and other materials or methods to stabilize brittle paper - or they can do that for you. Your descendents will be grateful. Paper is the best and longest-lived document carrier, far better than any electronic device - if it is treated properly. But still: before you do anything to your documents, digitalize them - just in case... (And then never forget to copy the CDs or DVDs regularly , because they are short-lived, and/or copy the data to an external hard drive, which is better, and always migrate the data to the current data formats, so they remain accessible). Best wishes, Renate