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From: "Agnes E. Cloninger" <>
Subject: [D-Col] Re: Preservation, anybody?
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 22:39:31 -0700
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Hello Susan
Just one quick thought - my local Genealogical Library has originals
of works collected and gifted to them many, many years ago, that are
still readily available for examination. What do you suppose will
happen to your on-line postings in that many years, or for that
matter in 10 years?

That nightmare could happen in the sweep of the second hand in the
unstable world of the Internet. Everything we post must be backed
somewhere by paper copies, perhaps placed in the hands of an
Historical Library/Society or at one of the more prestigious
Genealogical Societies? One that is not in danger of going under in
the rush to embrace the on-line substitutes.

Agnes VW Cloninger


>Hi Cynthia and list friends,
>
>Michael John Neill brings up a very important concept. I could replace
>the name of Charlene with the name of my son. He has her attitude of
>"throw it out". My sisters mock my genealogical ans web efforts. I have
>always tried to live by the Girl Scout motto: "Be Prepared", so I have
>already taken steps to make sure this nightmare never turns real for me.
>
>1. The documentation I unearthed (dating from the Civil War) has already
>been shared with my cousins and my mother's cousins. I put jpegs and
>transcriptions of some of the documentation and sources on-line. Any
>relative who has shown the slightest interest has been offered paper or
>e-copies. http://home.att.net/~susgod/charlotte/
>
>2. My 15 generation, multiple family Tree is on-line!
> http://home.att.net/~jg245/
>
>3. I went through my grandmother's foto albums, scanned and labeled
>every photo that could be identified and put the albums on-line on
>Ofoto.com to share with relatives. Some of my mother's elderly cousins
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