One solution would be to donate all your materials to your local genealogical library. They would be preserved there for future generations until one of your descendants decided to look up their ancestry. I have already donated a few marginal items from my genealogical collection to the Speical Collections & Genealogy Library here in Albuquerque. On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Jeanne Muse wrote: > Dear WRG: No one in my immediate family gives a flying fig about > genealogy -- at least not now. Later generations might and I want to > share my 12+ years of research with them in some form. Towards that > end, I have some questions to pose to you, since your opinions have the > most weight in my mind. > > 1) Original birth, death & marriage certificates as well as copies of > bible pages and other hard-to-locate documents are a large part of the > "proof". Where should I store them and how? Should I put them in > binders and put them in my safety deposit box at the bank? And a > regular e-ring notebook would probably not last. Finding a high quality > binder with acid-free insert pages may be necessary. Anybody have a > source? > > 2) I plan to print a complete Journal Narrative and could keep this in > the same place as the above documents. The same applies -- how and > where should I store it? Where could I find a "bound-book" style binder > for it? Or..should I have it 'privately published'? > > 3) Wall-size family chart. Printing one out on the computer just > doesn't seem sufficient. Has anyone had experience with an artist or > calligrapher who could design one for me? This would be the final > accomplishment - a beautiful piece of artwork for my wall. > > 4) It goes without saying that, after I'm gone, the wonderful published > genealogies in my library would need a home. Let's hope that my family > members would keep them -- but how do I make sure of this? Should I add > a line or two in my will? > > Any suggestions? > > Jeanne > > Karl Schwerin SnailMail: Dept. of Anthropology Univ. of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131 e-mail: schwerin@unm.edu Cultural anthropology...is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal. Edward Sapir (1949:151)