Hi all, I've decided to go through my Emails and delete as many as I could since I have over 700 now. LOL. Probably 500 are Emails from distant cousins that I wrote to when I discovered them and they responded with a plethora of info about their families. I added their info into TMG and cited the Email with date, sender and recipient info, etc. In paring down, I 've decided that I certainly do not want to print out hard copies and then delete the Emails since I do not want all that paperwork. In many cases, I don't have this info anywhere else so I have to cite a particular Email. I think I just really want to cite and delete the Email. I am single, and my nieces and nephews are not interested in genealogy nor would they ever read 500 Emails from strangers discussing family info if I kept the Emails. Is it irresponsible of me to use the source and delete it when it is the only proof of new people, their data and info about their families? If these were conversations that we had, the source would have no hard copy to back it up. Or even the source Personal Knowledge has no hard copy back up. AOL only allows me to archive these Emails in AOL mail so I can't even copy or move them to a personal file on my computer. I'm not sure if I want all this data anymore. I'm on overload with trying to be the family recorder and much of this is from very distant relatives. I already have two file cabinets at my house with birth, marriage, and death certs (paper copies) of my closer relatives. I have also scanned these and put them in my computer file. Too many papers! What are your thoughts on keeping these Emails of every person you've ever researched because it is now a source in TMG? Thanks, Terry

In most cases, the Email is the ONLY source for this information. A lot of these Emails are extremely detailed and some have recounted family stories about ancestors. I've documented it all, but now want to delete (gasp) the Email. I feel so guilty in even thinking about deleting any. But, I definitely am suffering from information overload and would like to organize my stuff and pare down. If I have too much, my nieces and nephew might just chuck all the paperwork or delete all the Emails anyway without examining when I'm gone. If there is less paperwork, maybe there would be a better chance of them actually keeping the vital stuff. Terry

Thank you Linda, Richard, and Ron. I LOVE your suggestions and didn't even think about cutting and pasting the Email into the source comments field. It doesn't matter that I won't be able to print it out. It's a terrific solution and I'm excited to start doing it. I also didn't think about putting them all on a memory stick. That way they're just out of my Email Inbox and it is so easy to store. This is why I love this group! Thank you again. Terry, your Email said that there was no content. It was blank. Did it come that way to everyone else or was there something wrong on my end? Terry

On 8/20/2015 9:22 PM, Terry Phelan via wrote: > Terry, your Email said that there was no content. It was blank. Did it come that way to everyone else or was there something wrong on my end? Terry, I have no clue. It was fine on the copy that came back to me. Here's what it said: I can't imagine getting rid of the emails - I have over 7,000 messages filed from various correspondents about my family research, and that doesn't count a thousand or two "pending" waiting to be entered. As I continue research on I from time to time I refer to them occasionally when I find new info and want to be sure just what the email previously cited says. I get very frustrated when I occasionally can't find one. On the other, you have some valid points. I'm not familiar with the AOL system, but any system that won't let you download and store them locally is not usable in my view. I gather you are quite sure there is no way to do that with AOL? And then of course there is the issue of where to they go when we are gone. For me, the fact that I might want them is reason enough to keep them. I'd not consider printing them, both because of the number, but also because they are so much harder to find. My view, anyway. Terry

Terry, My jaw dropped when you said you have 7,000 Emails. Yikes! I thought my mere 500 were troubling enough. It's been a while since I have tried to forward, copy, or move the Emails to my PC. When I was unable to do so, I made subfolders within AOL, but I really would like the ability to move them out. I will research this issue again and see if AOL has since made changes to allow that. I'll be pondering the issue about keeping or deleting them for a while, but before I act on that, I will definitely begin to copy and paste the Emails into the Source itself in TMG. If I have a question about the citation, I can simply go back and refer to the source where the actual Email is entered. Great ideas suggested! I appreciate all your replies. Thanks! Terry > On Aug 20, 2015, at 11:25 PM, Terry Reigel via <tmg@rootsweb.com> wrote: > >> On 8/20/2015 9:22 PM, Terry Phelan via wrote: >> Terry, your Email said that there was no content. It was blank. Did it come that way to everyone else or was there something wrong on my end? > Terry, > > I have no clue. It was fine on the copy that came back to me. Here's > what it said: > > I can't imagine getting rid of the emails - I have over 7,000 messages > filed from various correspondents about my family research, and that > doesn't count a thousand or two "pending" waiting to be entered. As I > continue research on I from time to time I refer to them occasionally > when I find new info and want to be sure just what the email previously > cited says. I get very frustrated when I occasionally can't find one. > > On the other, you have some valid points. I'm not familiar with the AOL > system, but any system that won't let you download and store them > locally is not usable in my view. I gather you are quite sure there is > no way to do that with AOL? > > And then of course there is the issue of where to they go when we are > gone. For me, the fact that I might want them is reason enough to keep > them. I'd not consider printing them, both because of the number, but > also because they are so much harder to find. > > My view, anyway. > > Terry > > > The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On 8/20/2015 7:50 PM, Terry Phelan via wrote: > What are your thoughts on keeping these Emails of every person you've ever researched because it is now a source in TMG? Terry, I can't imagine getting rid of the emails - I have over 7,000 messages filed from various correspondents about my family research, and that doesn't count a thousand or two "pending" waiting to be entered. As I continue research on I from time to time I refer to them occasionally when I find new info and want to be sure just what the email previously cited says. I get very frustrated when I occasionally can't find one. On the other, you have some valid points. I'm not familiar with the AOL system, but any system that won't let you download and store them locally is not usable in my view. I gather you are quite sure there is no way to do that with AOL? And then of course there is the issue of where to they go when we are gone. For me, the fact that I might want them is reason enough to keep them. I'd not consider printing them, both because of the number, but also because they are so much harder to find. My view, anyway. :-) Terry Reigel

On 8/20/15 7:50 PM, Terry Phelan via wrote: > Hi all, > I've decided to go through my Emails and delete as many as I could since I have over 700 now. LOL. Probably 500 are Emails from distant cousins that I wrote to when I discovered them and they responded with a plethora of info about their families. I added their info into TMG and cited the Email with date, sender and recipient info, etc. In paring down, I 've decided that I certainly do not want to print out hard copies and then delete the Emails since I do not want all that paperwork. In many cases, I don't have this info anywhere else so I have to cite a particular Email. I think I just really want to cite and delete the Email. > I am single, and my nieces and nephews are not interested in genealogy nor would they ever read 500 Emails from strangers discussing family info if I kept the Emails. Is it irresponsible of me to use the source and delete it when it is the only proof of new people, their data and info about their families? If these were conversations that we had, the source would have no hard copy to back it up. Or even the source Personal Knowledge has no hard copy back up. > AOL only allows me to archive these Emails in AOL mail so I can't even copy or move them to a personal file on my computer. I'm not sure if I want all this data anymore. I'm on overload with trying to be the family recorder and much of this is from very distant relatives. I already have two file cabinets at my house with birth, marriage, and death certs (paper copies) of my closer relatives. I have also scanned these and put them in my computer file. Too many papers! > What are your thoughts on keeping these Emails of every person you've ever researched because it is now a source in TMG? > Thanks, Terry > Personally, I would keep a copy of any email that I used as a source. You should be able to at least copy and paste the email into a text document and save that document with a reasonable name. -- Richard Damon

I cut and paste the email into the comments field of the source - I don't have that field set to print but it's there if I want to reference it again. On 8/20/2015 7:50 PM, Terry Phelan via wrote: > Hi all, > I've decided to go through my Emails and delete as many as I could since I have over 700 now. LOL. Probably 500 are Emails from distant cousins that I wrote to when I discovered them and they responded with a plethora of info about their families. I added their info into TMG and cited the Email with date, sender and recipient info, etc. In paring down, I 've decided that I certainly do not want to print out hard copies and then delete the Emails since I do not want all that paperwork. In many cases, I don't have this info anywhere else so I have to cite a particular Email. I think I just really want to cite and delete the Email. > I am single, and my nieces and nephews are not interested in genealogy nor would they ever read 500 Emails from strangers discussing family info if I kept the Emails. Is it irresponsible of me to use the source and delete it when it is the only proof of new people, their data and info about their families? If these were conversations that we had, the source would have no hard copy to back it up. Or even the source Personal Knowledge has no hard copy back up. > AOL only allows me to archive these Emails in AOL mail so I can't even copy or move them to a personal file on my computer. I'm not sure if I want all this data anymore. I'm on overload with trying to be the family recorder and much of this is from very distant relatives. I already have two file cabinets at my house with birth, marriage, and death certs (paper copies) of my closer relatives. I have also scanned these and put them in my computer file. Too many papers! > What are your thoughts on keeping these Emails of every person you've ever researched because it is now a source in TMG? > Thanks, Terry > > > > The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Terry, For what it's worth here is what I do about my emails which are used as sources. In the Email Source Citation field I place a full copy of each email in the Supplemental Tab. Usually what I do is from the original message I "momentarily" FORWARD it, (do not send) copy all the pertinent data, i.e., From, To, Date, Subject, Body etc., etc. I then copy this to that Supplemental Tab. I then cancel my "FORWARD" message, as I don't really need it. If there are large attachments/exhibits to the message I then print them out and place them in a filing cabinet referencing them to the Source Numbers in TMG. This works fine for me and I have been doing this for years. The only problem with this is as far as I know there are no ways to have them printed out in any reports. If I do need to see the original messages I got to my backups. Secondly I do use an email backup program for all my emails (going back to 1988) on a USB drive as well as in cloud programs. Hope this might give you some ideas, Cheers, Ron Chénier http://chesnay.homestead.com/ -----Original Message----- From: tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Terry Phelan via Sent: August 20, 2015 7:50 PM To: tmg@rootsweb.com Subject: [TMG] Organizing and Editing Sources. In particular, Emails. Delete or Keep? Hi all, I've decided to go through my Emails and delete as many as I could since I have over 700 now. LOL. Probably 500 are Emails from distant cousins that I wrote to when I discovered them and they responded with a plethora of info about their families. I added their info into TMG and cited the Email with date, sender and recipient info, etc. In paring down, I 've decided that I certainly do not want to print out hard copies and then delete the Emails since I do not want all that paperwork. In many cases, I don't have this info anywhere else so I have to cite a particular Email. I think I just really want to cite and delete the Email. I am single, and my nieces and nephews are not interested in genealogy nor would they ever read 500 Emails from strangers discussing family info if I kept the Emails. Is it irresponsible of me to use the source and delete it when it is the only proof of new people, their data and info about their families? If these were conversations that we had, the source would have no hard copy to back it up. Or even the source Personal Knowledge has no hard copy back up. AOL only allows me to archive these Emails in AOL mail so I can't even copy or move them to a personal file on my computer. I'm not sure if I want all this data anymore. I'm on overload with trying to be the family recorder and much of this is from very distant relatives. I already have two file cabinets at my house with birth, marriage, and death certs (paper copies) of my closer relatives. I have also scanned these and put them in my computer file. Too many papers! What are your thoughts on keeping these Emails of every person you've ever researched because it is now a source in TMG? Thanks, Terry The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi, Terry, If you can't cut/paste, then why not use Irfanview to make an image of the screen and save each message as a jpg? (If the message fills more than one screen, of course, you'll have to adjust accordingly). Also, if you can use Firefox as your browser, can't you also just click on "save page as" (upper left-hand corner of screen: File>Save page as)? I do that all the time with Findagrave and other webpages I want to save. (This Edge thing with Windows10 apparently has a print to pdf option though). Others have given good advice too, so you have several options to choose from. I would not delete the emails either. Sam On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Terry Phelan via <tmg@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > AOL only allows me to archive these Emails in AOL mail so I can't even copy or move them to a personal file on my computer. I'm not sure if I want all this data anymore. I'm on overload with trying to be the family recorder and much of this is from very distant relatives. I already have two file cabinets at my house with birth, marriage, and death certs (paper copies) of my closer relatives. I have also scanned these and put them in my computer file. Too many papers! > What are your thoughts on keeping these Emails of every person you've ever researched because it is now a source in TMG?

Terry, According to an AOL help page (url below), you can save AOL email messages to your own PC. It does not specify the format of the saved file, but I suspect it will be an HTML file. You can open HTML files in your browser and copy the text from there. http://tinyurl.com/orvpttc John

Good morning Terry, I would print as a PDF and keep it as an exhibit. Chris -----Original Message----- From: tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Terry Phelan via Sent: 21 August 2015 00:50 To: tmg@rootsweb.com Subject: [TMG] Organizing and Editing Sources. In particular, Emails. Delete or Keep? Hi all, I've decided to go through my Emails and delete as many as I could since I have over 700 now. LOL. Probably 500 are Emails from distant cousins that I wrote to when I discovered them and they responded with a plethora of info about their families. I added their info into TMG and cited the Email with date, sender and recipient info, etc. In paring down, I 've decided that I certainly do not want to print out hard copies and then delete the Emails since I do not want all that paperwork. In many cases, I don't have this info anywhere else so I have to cite a particular Email. I think I just really want to cite and delete the Email. I am single, and my nieces and nephews are not interested in genealogy nor would they ever read 500 Emails from strangers discussing family info if I kept the Emails. Is it irresponsible of me to use the source and delete it when it is the only proof of new people, their data and info about their families? If these were conversations that we had, the source would have no hard copy to back it up. Or even the source Personal Knowledge has no hard copy back up. AOL only allows me to archive these Emails in AOL mail so I can't even copy or move them to a personal file on my computer. I'm not sure if I want all this data anymore. I'm on overload with trying to be the family recorder and much of this is from very distant relatives. I already have two file cabinets at my house with birth, marriage, and death certs (paper copies) of my closer relatives. I have also scanned these and put them in my computer file. Too many papers! What are your thoughts on keeping these Emails of every person you've ever researched because it is now a source in TMG? Thanks, Terry The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I am playing around with everyone's suggestions about saving or deleting Emails as sources. What are the pros and cons to saving them as PDF's or downloading Irfanview and saving as JPG? Out of 500+ Emails, maybe 20 have two pages. The rest are mostly one page. I attempted to download Irfanview thru File Forum (Editors's Pick), but big red warning page came on when I hit download: "The Site Ahead contains Harmful Programs. Attackers on fileforum.betanews.com might attempt to trick you into installing programs that harm your browsing experience"...... Terry > On Aug 21, 2015, at 3:03 AM, Christopher Gray <Christopher.Gray@gray-ons.org> wrote: > > Good morning Terry, > > I would print as a PDF and keep it as an exhibit. > > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf > Of Terry Phelan via > Sent: 21 August 2015 00:50 > To: tmg@rootsweb.com > Subject: [TMG] Organizing and Editing Sources. In particular, Emails. Delete > or Keep? > > Hi all, > I've decided to go through my Emails and delete as many as I could since I > have over 700 now. LOL. Probably 500 are Emails from distant cousins that I > wrote to when I discovered them and they responded with a plethora of info > about their families. I added their info into TMG and cited the Email with > date, sender and recipient info, etc. In paring down, I 've decided that I > certainly do not want to print out hard copies and then delete the Emails > since I do not want all that paperwork. In many cases, I don't have this > info anywhere else so I have to cite a particular Email. I think I just > really want to cite and delete the Email. > I am single, and my nieces and nephews are not interested in genealogy > nor would they ever read 500 Emails from strangers discussing family info if > I kept the Emails. Is it irresponsible of me to use the source and delete it > when it is the only proof of new people, their data and info about their > families? If these were conversations that we had, the source would have no > hard copy to back it up. Or even the source Personal Knowledge has no hard > copy back up. > AOL only allows me to archive these Emails in AOL mail so I can't even > copy or move them to a personal file on my computer. I'm not sure if I want > all this data anymore. I'm on overload with trying to be the family recorder > and much of this is from very distant relatives. I already have two file > cabinets at my house with birth, marriage, and death certs (paper copies) of > my closer relatives. I have also scanned these and put them in my computer > file. Too many papers! > What are your thoughts on keeping these Emails of every person you've > ever researched because it is now a source in TMG? > Thanks, Terry > > > > The TMG archive is found here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message >

I do the research for a fairly large one-name study and realised a couple of years ago that having a source similar to the ones that you are talking of wasn't necessarily going to work as I was getting into detailed electronic conversations with people and I would end up with lots of "email from xxx dated yyyy" for the same person. That is when I came up with the solution I now use which is to copy every message both from and to the person into a single word document with the most recent at the top. These are then saved on the same external harddrive as all the rest of the research. Each is saved in a separate folder which is named after the person Smith-John. Within that folder there are other folder with copies of anything that I have sent them as well as ones with the data that they have sent me. Addition I also still save the email correspondence. One of the advantages of using the full version of MS Outlook, and one that many don't realise is there, is that you can save your messages into not only different folders but that you can have more than one PST file (that is the file extension used by Outlook to save all your messages. Again the messages are save by the name of the person. I come from the old school in computing of trying to save the trees. With over 3,000 certificates, many only in digital form and in total over 45 GB of data I hate to think of how many trees I would need. Regards John Hanson Researcher, The Halsted Trust Website - www.halstedresearch.org.uk -----Original Message----- From: tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Taryn L. Phelan via Sent: 25 August 2015 18:12 To: Christopher Gray Cc: <tmg@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [TMG] Organizing and Editing Sources. In particular, Emails. Delete or Keep? I am playing around with everyone's suggestions about saving or deleting Emails as sources. What are the pros and cons to saving them as PDF's or downloading Irfanview and saving as JPG? Out of 500+ Emails, maybe 20 have two pages. The rest are mostly one page. I attempted to download Irfanview thru File Forum (Editors's Pick), but big red warning page came on when I hit download: "The Site Ahead contains Harmful Programs. Attackers on fileforum.betanews.com might attempt to trick you into installing programs that harm your browsing experience"...... Terry > On Aug 21, 2015, at 3:03 AM, Christopher Gray <Christopher.Gray@gray-ons.org> wrote: > > Good morning Terry, > > I would print as a PDF and keep it as an exhibit. > > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf Of Terry Phelan via > Sent: 21 August 2015 00:50 > To: tmg@rootsweb.com > Subject: [TMG] Organizing and Editing Sources. In particular, Emails. > Delete or Keep? > > Hi all, > I've decided to go through my Emails and delete as many as I could > since I have over 700 now. LOL. Probably 500 are Emails from distant > cousins that I wrote to when I discovered them and they responded with > a plethora of info about their families. I added their info into TMG > and cited the Email with date, sender and recipient info, etc. In > paring down, I 've decided that I certainly do not want to print out > hard copies and then delete the Emails since I do not want all that > paperwork. In many cases, I don't have this info anywhere else so I > have to cite a particular Email. I think I just really want to cite and delete the Email. > I am single, and my nieces and nephews are not interested in > genealogy nor would they ever read 500 Emails from strangers > discussing family info if I kept the Emails. Is it irresponsible of me > to use the source and delete it when it is the only proof of new > people, their data and info about their families? If these were > conversations that we had, the source would have no hard copy to back > it up. Or even the source Personal Knowledge has no hard copy back up. > AOL only allows me to archive these Emails in AOL mail so I can't > even copy or move them to a personal file on my computer. I'm not sure > if I want all this data anymore. I'm on overload with trying to be the > family recorder and much of this is from very distant relatives. I > already have two file cabinets at my house with birth, marriage, and > death certs (paper copies) of my closer relatives. I have also scanned > these and put them in my computer file. Too many papers! > What are your thoughts on keeping these Emails of every person > you've ever researched because it is now a source in TMG? > Thanks, Terry > > > > The TMG archive is found here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I agree about the value of sub-folder structures within the email client (although this won't work for Terry, I don't think, with AOL). This can be done, with multiple levels of sub-folders, in at least Outlook, Outlook Express (if anyone is still using it), and Thunderbird. Further, Outlook and Thunderbird can be archived (exported) into a variety of industry-standard or proprietary file formats. With Thunderbird, use of the add-on ImportExportTools provides a vast selection of alternatives. But this strays from Terry's problem (although I hope it'll help others). For Terry, I agree with John that for plain-text/text-only messages, capturing the text itself is what counts*. I realize it's a lot of work, but in the long run I think the copy-and-paste-to-text-file will be the most useful. Rick Van Dusen ---------------------------- * Note on source content: There are three kinds of sources I can think of: 1. Documents which have intrinsic value, such as awards, maybe birth or baptism certificates, certainly photos. One would wish to keep the original document if possible or an image of it. 2. Documents which contain factual content which is of intrinsic interest, where what is written, the way it's written, is important, such as 3g-grandmother's account of pioneer life, some newspaper articles, etc. One would wish to keep a copy of the text itself; an image adds nothing of value. 3. Documents which contain data of import/interest, such as Census records. One need only record the data itself; neither the full text nor the image adds value. (Of course, any of these requires a full citation.) On 8/25/2015 3:36 PM, John Hanson via wrote: : : : > Addition I also still save the email correspondence. One of the advantages > of using the full version of MS Outlook, and one that many don't realise is > there, is that you can save your messages into not only different folders > but that you can have more than one PST file (that is the file extension > used by Outlook to save all your messages. Again the messages are save by > the name of the person. > > I come from the old school in computing of trying to save the trees. With > over 3,000 certificates, many only in digital form and in total over 45 GB > of data I hate to think of how many trees I would need. > > Regards > John Hanson

Coming late to this, but I have copied relevant information as text and pasted it into the Supplemental tab of the Source. Then deleted the email. BTW, I used to use Eudora and loved it because I could edit the emails and Subject lines and save them as a thread. My current Thunderbird is a great program but I cannot edit anything in it, and I miss that capability. Bob On 8/20/2015 7:50 PM, Terry Phelan via wrote: > Hi all, > I've decided to go through my Emails and delete as many as I could since I have over 700 now. LOL. Probably 500 are Emails from distant cousins that I wrote to when I discovered them and they responded with a plethora of info about their families. I added their info into TMG and cited the Email with date, sender and recipient info, etc. In paring down, I 've decided that I certainly do not want to print out hard copies and then delete the Emails since I do not want all that paperwork. In many cases, I don't have this info anywhere else so I have to cite a particular Email. I think I just really want to cite and delete the Email. > I am single, and my nieces and nephews are not interested in genealogy nor would they ever read 500 Emails from strangers discussing family info if I kept the Emails. Is it irresponsible of me to use the source and delete it when it is the only proof of new people, their data and info about their families? If these were conversations that we had, the source would have no hard copy to back it up. Or even the source Personal Knowledge has no hard copy back up. > AOL only allows me to archive these Emails in AOL mail so I can't even copy or move them to a personal file on my computer. I'm not sure if I want all this data anymore. I'm on overload with trying to be the family recorder and much of this is from very distant relatives. I already have two file cabinets at my house with birth, marriage, and death certs (paper copies) of my closer relatives. I have also scanned these and put them in my computer file. Too many papers! > What are your thoughts on keeping these Emails of every person you've ever researched because it is now a source in TMG? > Thanks, Terry > > > > The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Brenda Geldart BGeldart@verizon.net