Hi Marie You have to get someone with scanner and have them preserved them on a floppy disk or a CD ROM. You may think you are computer illiterate but you are not you wrote this message. Also we all understood you so do not sell yourself short. Your descendants will all have computers if they do not already have them. A scanner is nothing more than a copier that you can download the images to a computer. Once they get onto a CD ROM and if taken care of will out last most of us. Or until something new comes out and in most cases it can be load to the new format or whatever. If you ever get that accomplished you may want to the originals in a safe depoist box. Or some place free of moisture and the elements. I agree with Vicky up to a point we have are in a book with acid free paper. Not a bad idea but the computer along with the book and in a Safe Depoist Box is the way to go. This way you have a backup plan. Ciao Steve Marie Iovino wrote: > I've compiled biographies of family members and I have a photo > collection that goes back to 1901. I make everything available to > anyone who would like it for the price of the copies. So what's the > problem? Most of the adult family members couldn't care less about > there family tree. I'm afraid that in years to come the information > will be lost to the descendants who might be interested. > > I'm computer illiterate. How can these photos and biographies be > preserved for future generations? > > Marie Iovino > > http://community.webtv.net/MZI/IovinoDApolitoMauro