Hi Sharon, I've been following these messages with interest. It occurs to me that you could either put the data on a CD or print it out and keep it in a container that is labeled to go to either a local library or historical society upon your death. It could further be marked to say that information on living people should not be shared until x # of years after their dates of birth (maybe similiar to the way the census data is shared). You could note this in your will to be sure someone is aware of this. The data could be left in your safe deposit box if you have one large enough to hold it. You might want to contact the Madison County Historical Society or a local genealogy group (is there one for Madison County?) to see what their advice would be. Maybe they would accept it now with the understanding that data about living people would not be released to the public. I would guess this has been a question that has been asked before, but maybe not. Thanks for bringing it up on this list--I really hadn't thought about it myself. Pat Rowe Stone, Rochester, NY ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Garrett" <skye523@webtv.net> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 10:45 PM If I die next month all my data that I have on living family members will be just thrown out! No one close to me is interested. > I need to figure out how hundreds of hours of genealogy work and dozens > and dozens of family group sheets can be saved. I do not know of any repository to give this info to. > The datawould be pretty useless with out dates, places, etc, but just can > not be given to an historical society, etc without. I do not know of a > solution. > It seems like there should be some sort of an effort to create a > repository..some safe way to protect the data of us all for posterity... > but what?