From - Mike Disbrow, list manager After a long break from doing anything with the Disbrow web site, I have decided to make a few changes. Over the next few weeks I will be "tweaking" the web site in ways I hope will make it more useful and helpful. Today I added eleven "Disbrow Descendants Reports" to the site, which were previously only available from me by mail in printed form or on CD. I decided this information could be very valuable to those working on the various Disbrow families that are outlined in these reports, and may be a good starting point for those doing research on these lines. The Reports are in the form of Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) files, and can be accessed from the following page: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/5853/reports.html If you have a slow internet connection (as I do) the files may take up to a minute to open, but none of the files are very large. You can scroll through the pages to read the report, and each one has an all-name index at the end. You can also print out the pages, or save them in any storage medium you like. I only ask that you do not alter the information in them in any way. If you find something you think is wrong or needs amending, or a link that doesn't work, let me know. Most of you probably already have an Adobe Acrobat reader in your computer, but if not, you can download a free version of it at the following website: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html On another note: I'm trying to find ideas for what to do with all the thousands of records I have here. Over the years, as you can imagine, I've collected a lot of different kinds of genealogical records, both from my own research and from the hundreds of others who contributed their own research data to me. I condensed a lot of it down for the purpose of the books I've had printed, and for the Descendants Reports above, but there's so many more bits and pieces of data that either can't be categorized or couldn't be used because of space restrictions or some other reason. I'm looking forward to retirement in a few years and at that time my wife and I plan on moving to a smaller place. I won't be able to continue to store all this material, most of which is in paper form, but I don't want to discard it either, because of the potential value it may have to future family researchers. I'm open to any ideas our subscribers may have as to what to do with it all. Of course the idea would be t! o make the records available. I do have the ability to scan here, and to save to CD, or DVD. But even if I go the effort and time it will take to scan and save, what then do I do with the original papers? Throw them away? I'm sure others have faced this same problem. Any good answers out there? Mike