At a recent genealogy meeting the conversation turned to how to organize and store all the digitized information that we now download from the web: census records, pictures, books, cemetery listings, and even, in the case of Missouri, original death certificates, etc. It seems to defeat the "electronic age" to print out paper copies and, in the case of whole books downloaded from Heritage.com, impractical.

Pehaps most important, we are all concerned about what is going to happen to all the many, many years of research when we are no longer here to take care of it. Most all of us agree that our children are not interested at this point in their lives but, hopefully, will be some time in the future. So how to weather that dead spot (pun intended) until at least one of our children, or grandchildren, will take up the baton?

The end result of the conversation was that I cornered myself and ended up agreeing to put on a program on how I handle, or in reality, try to handle these problems. At that point I figured putting together the program as a web site would not take all that much more time and it might reach a few more that the usual 30 or 40 people who normally attend one of our genealogy meetings plus it might save a tree or two by not having to prepare a set of handouts

So, if you are interested click on Next below but first a few points on the organization of this web site: