In a message dated 8/22/2005 9:19:34 AM Eastern Standard Time, MuskratBay@aol.com writes: > Finally, I know the Godfrey Memorial Library, 134 Newfield Street, > Middletown, CT 06457-2534, (860) 346-4375, Fax (860) 347-9874, website > _www.godfrey.org_ (http://www.godfrey.org) , email _library@godfrey.org_ > (mailto:library@godfrey.org) , takes Family Bibles in for donations. They > also have a deal that > for a $35 a year membership as a Godfrey Scholar, you can access their > electronic databases from home. Databases include the Heritage Quest Online > Census > Collection &NewspaperArchive Elite (which include the Syracuse Post > Standard > Digital Archives as part of the over 400 US newspapers and a few foreign > countries newspapers in their collection... not every issue or every year > is > included, but it sure helps me find a lot of obits I am looking for without > paying > for gas, parking or copies). > > Hope this helps! I'm sure each location would appreciate a copy of the > important pages from that bible even if the Bible gets donated to a member > of the > VanBuskirk &Damon Families. > > Thanks > > Anne Ruggeri > That is such an important point you have brought up. When any of us finds a document that contains family information, ours or anyone else's, it is useful to consider how many ways it can be both shared and preserved. Some of these repositories you mention have wonderful collections that would not be possible if people did not plan for the preservation of information for all researchers. Just think if each subscriber to this list were to preserve one document for public research either digitally or physically, what a huge boost to retrievable information would be created. Thanks for that great list of repositories. Carol