I had someone ask me if the Historical & Genealogical Society would make copies of family files for our library. Yes, if you live locally or if you visit and want to bring your family files and want to leave us a copy, please bring them into the society and we will make the copies and put them into a binder to add to our family history collection. We do not care if it is just a few pages or volumes we have been striving since moving into our building five years ago to be the best Historical & Genealogical Society in the State! (We believe we are already headed in that direction) Like Mary Lee said in an earlier post if we run out of bookcases we will just buy more! We are more than willing to help in any way possible. Marjorie L. Wood President, Gallia County Historical Society

I've been wondering about something that I've been working on at home. I'm putting all my family documents and family tree maker files on disc and then sending them out to my siblings. I am also planning on making additional discs that don't contain documents of living individuals to send out to some National family historians. This requires a scanner and a CD burner. I've noticed that the documents often times are not legible on the computer screen once scanned, however when I print them out they print out legibly. I'm also backing up my family tree maker onto CD as well. I'm finding that this requires a lot less room to store and I can keep copies of the discs in a safety deposit box. That way should the house catch fire, my documents and hard work are always safe. I was thinking about donating a copy to the GCH&GS, if they're interested, but they have to wait till I get this project completed :-) Linda Tope Trent lindatrent@zoomnet.net

Linda, We would love to have a copy of your hard work. Several people have donated their family CD files, so we have started a collection of these CD's. Like you I have backed my FTM files onto a CD. I have planned on putting a copy in my safe deposit box, in the meantime I have a copy I leave at my daughters home. Mary Lee Davis Marchi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Trent" <lindatrent@zoomnet.net> To: <OHGALLIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 8:49 PM Subject: Re: [OHGALLIA-L] Family records > I've been wondering about something that I've been working on at home. > I'm putting all my family documents and family tree maker files on disc > and then sending them out to my siblings. I am also planning on making > additional discs that don't contain documents of living individuals to > send out to some National family historians. This requires a scanner and > a CD burner. > > I've noticed that the documents often times are not legible on the > computer screen once scanned, however when I print them out they print out > legibly. I'm also backing up my family tree maker onto CD as well. I'm > finding that this requires a lot less room to store and I can keep copies > of the discs in a safety deposit box. That way should the house catch > fire, my documents and hard work are always safe. > > I was thinking about donating a copy to the GCH&GS, if they're interested, > but they have to wait till I get this project completed :-) > > Linda Tope Trent > lindatrent@zoomnet.net > > ==== OHGALLIA Mailing List ==== > For those of you on Digest mode, please don't quote the entire digest when > replying. Also, check your subject line; making it meaningful will > increase your chances of being read. > >