Preacher, I would suggest that you buy a CD writer and put all your info on a CD Rom disc. When I bought mine, I paid $229.00 with a $30.00 rebate. That has been almost a year ago and they should have come down some by now. Phil -----Original Message----- From: jarice36 [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 1:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [WVMINGO] History I want to question using a 3 1/2" floppy to put your family history on to save it for future generations. How long do you think it will be before the 3 1/2" floppy goes the way of the 5 1/4" floppy. You can't hardly find a computer now with one in it. Before that time I had a Texas Instrument 99-4-A computer that used audio tapes for storage. Now they are gone. before long, the CDs will be in the trash and we will have something new in their place...... So where do we go???? Well the printed Book has held up pretty well over the years. Hundreds in fact. I think they may have a better chance of surviving. Maybe not, but we live in a changing world. It surely is a puzzle of how to preserve it for future generations. I am trying to get mine in every format I can.....Maybe one will survive........I hope so..... "Preacher"