In a message dated 13/06/2004 13:29:29 GMT Daylight Time, Epaxton@aol.com writes: > Could the papers be scanned and stored electronically, if after further > consideration DGFHS felt they would be happy to be recipients? > DGFHS don't have the facilities or (more importantly) the volunteer time to do this. It is not possible for the society to be a archive for family trees. I suspect that the boom in popularity of genealogy will outstrip the storage facilities of even libraries and archives ........... electronic storage such as rootweb and other online sites may be the answer, but they may not (in fact probably won't) preserve it forever. In any case the results of any genealogist's research are always secondary sources........... and if all our work was preserved for ever where's the fun for future generations <g> Irene