Suppose you have a magnificent genealogy file: all your ancestors going
back 300 years identified, described and sourced; all yours sources and
pictures scanned and digitized. You've stored everything electronically and
backed it up six times. Everything is organized and labelled meticulously.
Tomorrow you get hit by a bus. Your executor goes through your belongings
and finds this box marked "GENEALOGY" full of labelled CD's and gives it
your granddaughter. She has no interest in genealogy, so puts the box in a
garage storage cabinet. 50 years from now her son is going through her
belongings and finds the box. He's a genealogist. He's excited! He has
visions of all those brickwalls crashing down. He opens the box. He has no
idea what all these thin, shiny disks are. Maybe early 21st century
coasters?
It would be like finding a box of piano rolls and only having a DVD player
to play your music.
The fact is that 300 years ago, the best way to save data for posterity was
on paper, and that is still the best way today, unfortunately. Don't throw
away those paper files!
John S. Adams
Hermosa Beach, CA
"Just another day in paradise."
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 1:28 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Why save copies of census records?
Since I have been using Legacy to attach census images to people appearing
in the census, I am wondering if there is any longer a need for a hard
copy record. What do you think?
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