When talking to those who are not at all interested in genealogy, it becomes apparent that they feel that these old documents that we seek to preserve are absolutely worthless. I tried to put together a tree for my now deceased husband, and when I asked questions about names, times and places for clues to search, etc, he frequently said "what do you want to know that for? What you are doing is worthless pieces of paper that you're spending a lot of time and money on !" Of course, I never saw his logic about games and felt it was a waste of time for him to watch an entire football game in late evening that he had already seen in its entirety earlier in the day!! Different strokes - - - - BUT, I agree, the people in charge of the caretaking of these documents shouldn't BE in charge if that's their attitude! And a more careful screening before hiring those individuals might eliminate some of it. Oh, the loss !! DORI