Excerpted and/or paraphrased from: New York Genealogy News, Issue # 18; 97-09-15; by Loren V. Fay; LVFay@aol.com. What will happen to your genealogy materials after you die? Will they be kept by a relative, sold at a garage sale, thrown out or given to an archive? Have a short paragraph added to your will, leaving no doubt about what to do with your personal library and the data you have collected in your research. The following is a sample and your attorney can help adapt it to local laws: "I direct my executor or executrix to box the following genealogical publications and compilations for donation to the (Insert the name of your favorite genealogical library or society here, or a family member or other person who you wish to be recipient of some of all of your materials.) for appropriate disposition or retention by that library or society for the benefit of family history researchers. "( 1.) All family history materials of which I die possessed. "( 2.) My library of all printed reference books, genealogical publications and materials. "( 3.) The unpublished family history manuscript materials on which I was working. "( 4.) My genealogy related computer files including all diskettes or cds containing genealogy related electronic media. "( 5.) Other (specify): "The address of my intended recipient is:.."