My thoughts on this, DB: if these are GR families from Kansas, the papers should be in Kansas where they will be accessible (KS Historical Society or the like). Also it might be worth donating them to AHSGR. I'm just glad to learn that you won't throw them away. They are valuable to some family researcher, right? Dona Reeves-Marquardt ________________________________ From: ger-volga-bounces@rootsweb.com on behalf of Leichtling Sent: Sun 8/5/2007 2:23 PM To: ger-volga@rootsweb.com Subject: [GV] A lot of paper! I have a different subject for this list I have an 80 year old Mother who is now in assisted living. She has a diagnosis of Lewy Body Dementia (Alzheimer's and Parkinson's combined). We had to close her house down and sell it (back in April) and all of her "stuff" is now in my garage. As I share a love for genealogy with her she has decided she wants to go over all of her work and papers with me. I spend about 2 or 3 hours each day with her so it gives us something to do and she loves it. It's also good for her! She is "Old School" genealogy. Everything written down and kept. Back in her days if you ran into a road block you tried using a "side street" or tracking cousins or others in the same area with the same surnames. Also back in her hay days there was less info than what is available now. So tracking side line was fun for her and she communicated with a lot of people by "letters". Problem...I have reams of papers and binders filled with group sheets and information and letters (she kept everything) that are not my ancestors. Some are cousins and most are not even related. Most of them are people living in Kansas and a lot of them were born in Russia. I can't and won't destroy them, but what is the best thing to do with them. I wish I could find the ancestors (some of you guys) and give it too them, but that would take a lot of time I'm afraid. I don't want to just sit on these papers. Any suggestions? Has anyone had this question (problem)? DB ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello everyone, Well just finished another 2 hours with Mom and another box of paper. I have 5 or 6 boxes of direct line family papers and those I know what to do with. I will be working on these items first. I have all of the direct line things already on my genealogy program and a lot of it was certificates (originals) and those went into the fire safe. At this point I may have 2 or 3 boxes (good size ones) of non direct line papers. It will take some time to go over all of it to make sure it is indeed non direct line stuff. This I will work on later. My head is swimming with names and places at this point. Although Mom is having some problems with short term memory right now, she is sharp with long term. She can tell me almost everything about each person and who she was communicating with back into the 60's, 70's and 80's. I wish I had had a tape recorder on now. I'm sure I can't remember it all. We are almost through all of the boxes. Where is this info from?...well it seems like everywhere. (please don't email me about specifics yet, I can't get back to where I saw it!). I remember Graham County, Ellis County, Salina or Saline County? I'm sure there were more in Kansas. Those are the ones I remember. Some were in Colorado like Denver Arapaho Co., Sedwick Co. Stirling, CO., and more. Even some in Chicago Illinois. I can't remember them all, but that is a just a few. Names were like Goetz, Miltenberger, Knoll, Mehler, Shcukman, Werth, Heile, Boxler, Nierberger, Graus, Pfeifer, Geist, Miller, Hoffmann, Vonfelt, Bissing, Urbert, Rupp, Weigel, Rohr, Werz, Kisner and a lot more. Some were from Russia such as Grave, Sewald, Herzog, Rohleder, Rothammel? and others. I will make sure the Village VC's get copies of those. I've received a number of emails on this subject and I really appreciate these suggestions also. I guarantee you, none of it will be thrown out or destroyed. That would break her heart. DB