Ray, Some genealogy friends and I were discussing the question of what happens to my research stuff when I'm gone recently. Some of the ideas we came up with is if there is any family member who shares our interest, they just got luck and inherited our most valued asset. If unfortunately we have no family member smart enough to share our interests, then we decided the choices were to leave the information to a genealogy organization, the LDS, a library or the information can be divided among different organizations. This way the information I spent hours digging up isn't totally lost forever in a landfill and maybe some day many years from now when someone is looking for info on me for their family tree this information will be available for them. Since I have lost information before due to computer melt downs, I backup everything onto CDs and keep my hard copies. Judy Searching for O'Connor, Hayes, Foley, Alworth, Gentlemen, McManus in County Kerry; Clarke, Loughran, Quinn in County Tryone. Also searching Delfino, Bellantoni and Neri in Italy -----Original Message----- From: Ray Marshall <[email protected]> To: Meg Kenagy <[email protected]>; IRL-Kerry-L <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Oct 23, 2010 4:39 pm Subject: [IRL-KERRY] Preserving Your Family History Records Digitally You're very welcome, Meg. Yes, we family historians sure do go through the binders (and bookshelves, oo) Because even with digital records, it is critically important to retain hard copies" of all of your research. The big problem, for me, with binders is now that I know what to do with my igital files after I am gone, is --- what do I do with my binders? Do I ave someone who might want them and care for them? Many new genealogists have come to believe that everything that they might ant to know about their ancestors will be found on the internet. That is wrong. You still need to examine original copies of church and ivil records, including passenger lists, immigration information, bituaries, newspaper articles, articles in books, reference books, etc. nd you end up making copies or scans of those. That's what the binders are or. Ray -----Original Message----- rom: iMeg Kenagy ent: Saturday, October 23, 2010 1:12 PM ubject: [IRL-KERRY] Preserving Your Family History Records Digitally Thank you, Ray, for the link to Preserving Your Family History ecords Digitally. It's great to have all this information in one lace--realize I have to get more organized, but who knew my search o find information on a grandfather would lead me to 10 binders and stack of CDs! Meg Kenagy [email protected] _______________ -------------- Policies of the IRL-Kerry List: ttp://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/mailing.html To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message. To subscribe to the Digest version of the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'subscribe' without the quotes in he subject and the body of the message. To visit the County Kerry Research and Resources Page go to: ttp://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ Share your stuff! If you transcribed research data, share it with the Irish enealogy community. Contribute it to the Kerry website to reach a wide udience. Contact Ann Hammer, data maintenance. Her contact info is at ttp://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ contrib.html ------------------------------- o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message