Judy, I am involved in our local Genealogical Association here in Ray County, Missouri. You would win the "bet" that a genealogy or historical society would love to have a shipment of genealogical or historical books that people no longer use. We are a small county, but our library contains many books from other states, books pertaining to wars, DAR books, reference, etc. Not everyone in the area has Ray County roots (me included) and it is nice to be able to search in our books from other states and find information on my ancestors. We have several Vanderpools and VanBebbers/VanBibber researchers in our county. But of course, I am not connected to them, darn it. This gives me the idea to put this suggestion in our next quarterly. Lisa (with many New Netherland ancestors) On 4/10/2013 2:33 PM, jacassidy22@verizon.net wrote: > I just shipped off 32 pounds of books, U. S. Media Mail, to two different > Historical Society libraries which only cost me $20.00. These were books, > like new, that I no longer used, or that didn't contain the information > which I thought they would, purchased over the years. I am sure many people > have such a collection and can't figure out what to do with them. Rather > than leave it to my children, who would have no idea, I decided that it was > time to pass them on. So if any of you have such books at home, which are > gathering dust and no longer used, I bet a Historical Society Library might > appreciate them. If not they can always sell them and donate the proceeds > to the library. > I have a friend who just died not so long ago, he had a wonderful > collection, but it was a sudden death and now this collection is sitting in > the milk house on the farm, he left no instructions on how he wanted them > disposed. > Judy > > ------------------------------- > 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 > . >