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From: "Carlene" <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Data Storage for the Future
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 00:51:39 -0500


Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana will also take a
book/manuscript and copy it for their genealogy library. They return a bound
book copy to you also. It sometimes takes 6 plus months for the binding but
well worth it as Allen County is supposed to be the biggest Public genealogy
repository. Library of Congress is also a consideration. Town libraries,
County libraries, and State libraries all would be good places to give a
copy of a book/manuscript or even a few pages of pedigree.
One of my starting points was a pedigree in a file in a county library. Even
without sources it was a big help with some locations and dates. It seems to
me that the more places a copy is placed the better the chance someone will
have the information in the future.

Carlene Earl


----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Kryssbek" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Data Storage for the Future


> John MayBee wrote:
>
> > > * Where is your data to be stored?
> >
> > Books are sent to genealogical libraries (do they keep them??)
>
> If you send a book to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, give
permission for
> them to microfilm it and circulate it to the branch libraries. That will
ensure that your
> book makes it into the granite vault on microfilm. If the book is
microfilmed, they often
> won't keep the book (depending on what it is). You can ask them to
microfilm the book and
> return the original to you (which I have had them do). This is a free way
of getting
> something microfilm and putting it into many hands of many people. I think
you can even
> request a copy of the microfilm yourself. Of course a copy of the book
should be sent to
> many other different libraries, etc., especially where the family was
located, and most
> importantly, placed in the hands of many family members.
>
> Thomas Kryssbek
>
>
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