Hi Sharon, I have thought a little bit about where my research might go but hopefully I still have 40 more years or more before that becomes an issue. And I hope my children at some point may show an interest or any future grandchildren but who knows. Have you checked with the genealogical societies in the areas either where you are living or better yet, where your research is concentrated? What about the historical society? You may also want to check into colleges in the area. I believe there was an article either in Family Tree Maker magazine or Family Chronicle magazine regarding this issue. Let me see if I can find it and see what they suggested. What family lines have you researched? Maybe you have some of the same lines I have, one never knows. Christine Emond -----Original Message----- From: Sharon Garrett [mailto:skye523@webtv.net] Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 10:45 PM To: NYMADISO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NYMADISO] Living relatives Gosh, I am ust ot describing the problem. 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 would and have neer put anything on a website and those are not a way to save data for , what I hope, will be a future genealogist in the family. I guess you all have younger family members that are interested, I do not. I have literally hundreds of cousins (of one degree or another) all over the US that are descendants. Now LDS only takes info on deceased. I do not know of any repository to give this info to. Maybe others in a like position have never thought beyond their life time and how to protect their valuable research? If anyone has, plase let me know. 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. I have a cousin dying of cancer with the same worries regarding his work. His wife will just throw it out in the trash and neither of his daughters want it. 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? Or is there somewhere? that is what I want to know. has anyone mae a way to safeguard thir data on people who are now living? Or perhaps few have data on hundreds of people like me as they are not from the prolific breeders my people were (: Thanks, Sharon ==== NYMADISO Mailing List ==== To post to this list - send email from the address you subsribed to the list with to this address - NYMadiso-L@rootsweb.com