Once you have put it all in order why not offer it to your local records office for their local history collection? If you are in striking distance of London then the Society of Genealogists, near the Barbican, would also probably be interested. Dave Swarbrick On 14 February 2016 at 18:53, carolsaul49 via <[email protected]> wrote: > Some very interesting information in this topic, thank you. > > My so far unsolved question is what to do with my tree, or at least a lot > of the branches, where there is now no-one to hand a lot of them on to. I > don't have a tree online at all [although I've shared a lot of my info with > others some of whom I know have put it on their Ancestry trees which I am > quite happy about] but I would like my research to be available for when > any future distance relatives reach one of my ancestors and I'm no longer > around or compos mentis. I have an awful lot of paper files [which I am > trying to reduce] and it seems a shame to waste what I've researched and > the certificates I've paid for. I used to put postems on FreeBMD although > I've lost track of where I got to with doing that. > > Any ideas gratefully received. > > Carol > > > > > > > :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: > > Buy or sell family research items on the GEN-MAT-UKI mailing list. No > fees! > > The list's administrator can be contacted at [email protected] > > :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi Carol As Dave suggests if you belong to the Society of Genealogists (and possibly even if you don't) then donating your research to them could be a great option If you belong to the Guild of One Name Studies - if they receive material from a member I think they will preserve it (electronically) in the anticipation that someone else will come along who may share the same surname interests (I am a member of both and this is my current understanding) Or write up your research and publish And you might want to make sure there are written legal instructions on what is to happen Very Best Regards Richard H -----Original Message----- From: John David Swarbrick via Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2016 7:05 PM To: carolsaul49 ; [email protected] Subject: Re: [LAN] What to do with trees for others to see [was: Online trees and hijacked info] Once you have put it all in order why not offer it to your local records office for their local history collection? If you are in striking distance of London then the Society of Genealogists, near the Barbican, would also probably be interested. Dave Swarbrick On 14 February 2016 at 18:53, carolsaul49 via <[email protected]> wrote: > Some very interesting information in this topic, thank you. > > My so far unsolved question is what to do with my tree, or at least a lot > of the branches, where there is now no-one to hand a lot of them on to. I > don't have a tree online at all [although I've shared a lot of my info > with > others some of whom I know have put it on their Ancestry trees which I am > quite happy about] but I would like my research to be available for when > any future distance relatives reach one of my ancestors and I'm no longer > around or compos mentis. I have an awful lot of paper files [which I am > trying to reduce] and it seems a shame to waste what I've researched and > the certificates I've paid for. I used to put postems on FreeBMD although > I've lost track of where I got to with doing that. > > Any ideas gratefully received. > > Carol > > > > > > > :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: > > Buy or sell family research items on the GEN-MAT-UKI mailing list. No > fees! > > The list's administrator can be contacted at [email protected] > > :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: Buy or sell family research items on the GEN-MAT-UKI mailing list. No fees! The list's administrator can be contacted at [email protected] :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message