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Subject: Re: TMG-L: Storing data
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 15:46:51 EST

In a message dated 2/2/2000 2:35:27 PM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:

> A thought has just occurred to me reading the latest batch of postings
> regarding what, how and where to store our 'hard earned research' for
future
> generations.
>
> Why?
>
> Only somewhat tongue in cheek do I suggest that we are by collecting just
> about every conceivable detail of our respective families since records
> began and then generously setting them aside to be handed down to our as
yet
> unborn relatives to come - in what ever form - will certainly kill stone
> dead for a good few hundred years at least any participation by those who
> come after us and wish to pursue this enjoyable pastime for themselves.
>

You are assuming that you will have found everything before you pass on.
Wrong! I received 47 years of family research from a daughter of my great
great uncle soon after I started this quest. Now 27 years later, I am still
finding more BMD data and learning more about the lives of the people I have.

- Bob Page -
"The man who doesn't read has no advantage over one who can't."
Mark Twain

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