Dear Folks: Vee made some important points that I think we should all consider, especially if we are ones who have the family heirlooms. I haven't even given the thought of putting family heirlooms in my will, but it sounds like it might be a good idea. What I have done is scanned all of Phoebe's diaries and burned them on a CD. I have done that with Phoebe's father's diaries as well as another ancestor's diary. I also inherited several autograph albums from the 1880's, and photographs, as well as letters. Some of the files were too big to put on one CD, so I put different family lines on a separate CD. I read somewhere on another list, someone suggested to put these CD's in a bank vault, in case you ever had a fire, which we did. That way, even though you may not have the original images, at least you'd have the copies from the CD's. At Christmas, my mother sent me a huge book that had a lot of biographies in it. The title of it is, "Portrait and Biographical Album of Branch County, Michigan." It contains a biography of my gg grandfather, Artemas A. Roberts. The book is the original edition and I was wondering if anyone knew how valuable these books are. I can get Heritage Quest free from my local library, and I was able to access this book and others, and have found a lot on my ancestors. The book also contains portraits and biographies of all the Presidents and Govenors of Michigan. Kim