Bill, I can't say how many people come to Cayuga County to do research, but I can sure testify about how many $$$ I've spent visiting other locales away from my home in Cayuga County. We've visited Civil War Battlefields where some ancestor fought only after finding records on the web. I've visited small towns, big cities, and tromped through obscure cemeteries in the US and Ireland based solely on some information that I've found on the Internet, not always in pursuit of records, but sometimes just to see a house or gravestone in person. Looking at maps just doesn't show you how two houses, apparently miles apart, were just a pasture away through back fields when two lovestuck teenagers were courting. Were it not for the internet, I would never have found information solid enough for me to invest the time and money to go see these places for myself, and I'm sure the same goes for the people who have traveled to Cayuga County for the same purposes. It's a shame that the tourism people don't promote the family history resources available and make that a big tourism selling point. With all the history that we have behind us in this county, it would sure get me to town a whole lot faster than a Bass Pro Shop! As for the size of the picture files, I couldn't agree more that priceless information is gained through the enlargements possible on there internet. My eyes often water from trying to read the faded details on those old maps and in just a click or two, every name and detail is crystal clear. My only big fear is that the repositories for the original hard copies of all the pictures and books will destroy the originals once they have been digitalized. A digital image is great, but there's a big responsibility that is passed along to subsequent archivists to keep the data in an up-to-date format as data storage media changes. Once an original is lost, it's lost forever.