I second Judy's advice. When I first moved to a village along the Hudson River, a woman brought me shoe box. It was filled with a lifetime of note cards, on the genealogies on local residents. Her children and tossed them in the garage! I xeroxed every card, then donated the originals to the local historical society. But please look into where you donate. I loved the NYBGS, such a wonderful old building and a lovely quiet library, now gone due to lack of funding. To my knowledge they donated all their material to the NY Public Library. Be certain were you donate is well funded, and will last for future generations, to utilize your research. I am admittedly prejudice to the NEHGS, as I serve on their Council, the NEHGS is keeping their traditions, while moving into the modern world. They are actively building their endowment fund, and just purchased the building next to them - so now will be 97 to 110 Newberry Street. They are opening their collections and expanding, while becoming more and more inclusive. Wherever you donate - make sure they have some sort of endowment! I served on a local board of a historical society I shall not name, and every year it was a struggle just to get the fees to pay the staff, while some money was spent on expending physical artifacts, or an new exhibit, nothing was a allocated to increasing the genealogy collection. Donate!! But research where you donate. We've all worked hard to gather information, as I suspect like myself, could always use more bookshelves. My hope is a 4 generations from now, it will be that missing link that pulls down someone's brick wall. Cleaver ________________________ Ms. Cleaver Layton White On Dec 31, 2012, at 11:53 PM, jacassidy22@verizon.net wrote: > > I would also like to encourage others, who like myself find that their > children are not really interested in genealogy, to donate their papers, > especially copies of original documents to a Genealogical or Historical > Society Library of their choice. I finally ended up actually donating > documents to several libraries depending on the family because I had visions > of my family throwing up their hands and deciding to just toss it all out. > They had no idea what or where these papers should go, so I simply made it > easy for them. > It can be a big job, especially if like many of us who began back in the > 1950's and 60's when no one cited anything or copied the title page or even > received the citation for a courthouse. > You need to make sure that you send some kind of letter noting the documents > sent and citing in full reference what they are, it is a big job for > libraries to receive a box of documents which have no citations and expect > them to do the research involved to properly cite them. Also don't send > your personal correspondence. > Someone will appreciate those papers in the future. > Judy > > > On 12/31/12, Lynne Roberts<lnr@surewest.net> wrote: > > And I'd like to add that Dorothy Koenig generously donated > her early New York books to the library of the California > Genealogical Society, and I and other researchers are more > grateful to her than she knows. California is a vast > wasteland of New York and New Jersey resources, and she > changed that for all the Northern California residents who > were trying to research their families in very early New > York. Donations such as hers are cherished much more than > she, or the others that do it, know. Now I fully intend to > donate all of the books and resources that I have > accumulated to a Sacramento library so others can enjoy > them. > Lynne > Lynne Roberts > Roseville, CA > -----Original Message----- > From: du[1]tch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com > [[2]mailto:dutch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of > [3]jacassidy22@verizon.net > Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 12:11 PM > To: [4]dorland@rootsweb.com; [5]dutch-colonies@rootsweb.com; > [6]new-netherland@rootsweb.com; [7]VANARSDALE@rootsweb.com > Subject: [DUTCH-COLONIES] Thank You Dorothy Koenig and the > New Netherland Connections > I can't speak for anyone else, but I wanted to again > thank Dorothy Koenig > who encouraged so many of us and allowed us to publish > our articles in the > New Netherland Connections. She encouraged new writers > and provided a > source of great information to everyone. She really is > irreplaceable. So > for those who have gone on to write for other > publications or for those > considering doing so, more often than not, Dorothy > was the one who > encouraged everyone onward. We don't often have that > opportunity, so thanks > so very much Dorothy, believe me, neither you or the > New Netherland > Connections has been forgotten and for providing the > opportunity to sumit > and share and learn how to craft a decent article for > publication. > Judy Cassidy > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DU[8]TCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the message > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DU[9]TCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > References > > 1. mailto:tch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com > 2. mailto:dutch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com > 3. mailto:jacassidy22@verizon.net > 4. mailto:dorland@rootsweb.com > 5. mailto:dutch-colonies@rootsweb.com > 6. mailto:new-netherland@rootsweb.com > 7. mailto:VANARSDALE@rootsweb.com > 8. mailto:TCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com > 9. mailto:TCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message