Sylvia wrote: >Lately there has been some discussion on the list about preserving your >source documents. Well, one enterprising list member has decided that the >Greene Co website, Tracing your Roots in Greene Co, is as good a place as >any. I have just received transcriptions of all the Clough/Clow wills in his >possession and they will be posted to the Greene Co website shortly. That was me with the wills. Sylvia and I have been trading e-mails for years now and I've contributed material to her website before. It's always been my intention to contribute as much as possible. I'm sure it's the same for many of you as well, but, well, you know, time and inertia have conspired against me, even though I've had these will transcriptions for some time. To make them useful for Sylvia's website I had to go back and add titles, copied from info and probate dates to the raw transcription text. And, well, I had other things to do. It's not that I didn't want to share, but I was thinking of my wants first. I mean with the time I have - I always want to move my research forward. I guess after Katrina hit New Orleans I've become more focused on how to preserve what I have already done. I'd like to encourage you all to do the same. I mean I back-up my PC files regularly and think of myself as smart for doing so, but in some cases smart isn't sufficient. So, I'm thinking of how I can better protect myself from complete loss in a catastrophe and I'm in an e-mail exchange with Sylvia about something else entirely when a light bulb goes off in my head. I download tons of stuff from her website - why not upload. Sylvia's got a free, geographically remote (for me, and, I assume, for you), back-up site just waiting there. Like me, I'm sure you intended to contribute sometime because you have a big heart. Here's why it's worth your time to do it now. Cause you might lose it permanently if you don't. Jim Brady