You win the prize for writing the most depressing post I've ever read. I don't agree with the paper thing either. First of all, mine is way too much to print and it's no guarantee anyway.
Share while you can. If your close relatives are boobs at least it's all somewhere else and has a fighting chance. --- JL Beeken JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/ On 10/11/2012 2:23 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Lets be honest and face it. No matter what format our life's work is in > it becomes questionable as to whether it will survive us, especially if > what we do is not appreciated in anyway by our survivors. > > I personally knew of a situation where a friend and fellow genealogist > who helped me get started had all his research PAPERS (including > correspondence spanning several years) PITCHED when his 'loving > children' thought he was on his death bed. 40 years of meticulous > gladiolus hybridizing records suffered the same fate. He survived his > "impending death" scare only to learn when he was well enough to come > home that his children had rented a dumpster, parked it at the front > door and got rid of all his "crap". He later told me he didn't have one > scrap of paper left to show for 40+ years of hybridizing OR genealogy. I > would have LOVED to have, at least been offered, the chance to pick > through what he had since we had a common ancestor. > > In another situation the widow of the researcher was ready to pitch her > husband's research when an in law found out about it and salvaged it > before she did. In neither case was anyone contacted to see if "you want > any of this 'stuff' ________ (fill in the blank, Dad, Mom, Aunt Alice, > Grandpa, Grandma etc) accumulated?" > > Safe guard as best we can and hope for it to survive us and wind up in > some one (or some institution) loving hands.......! > > gc Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
