On genealogy: Keep family research alive after you`re gone - Broomfield Enterprise

On genealogy: Keep family research alive after you`re gone - Broomfield Enterprise:

Jule Miller, Enterprise columnist
Posted: 02/13/2011 12:00:00 AM MST

"What is going to happen to your genealogy research when you are gone? This is not a subject most of us want to think about. However, it is something for which all genealogists should take time to plan."

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Mr. Dickie says:
Do you have a plan? After your death what will happen to the genealogy information you gathered and organized? None of us should count on anyone else to take care of this matter for us.

I have donated some of my work to genealogy libraries. Consider, The Library of Congress; the LDS library in Salt Lake City; the Allen County Library in Fort Wayne, IN; the DAR library in Washington, DC; the NGS library in Washington, DC.

UpFront with NGS:

UpFront with NGS: Tales of an Heirloom Civil War Hat

Digital Archive Provides Access to Historic Atlanta Newspapers

UpFront with NGS: Digital Archive Provides Access to Historic Atlanta Newspapers:

"A new digital database providing online access to 14 newspaper titles published in Atlanta from 1847 to 1922 is now available through the Digital Library of Georgia, housed at The University of Georgia Libraries."

UpFront with NGS

2010 Research Resolutions of the NGS President - Jan Alpert

UpFront with NGS: Research Resolutions for the New Year

UpFront with NGS: RootsMagic Releases Free Genealogy and Family Tree Software

UpFront with NGS: RootsMagic Releases Free Genealogy and Family Tree Software

There are two reasons why this link might be of interest.

1. First, a free version of the genealogy program, RootsMagic, called RootsMagic Essentials is now available. The commercial version of RootsMagic is the genealogy program I currently use. An earlier version of the program was called FamilyOrigins. I also used that program, primarily to load GEDCOM files shared with me by others. In my opinion RootsMagic is an excellent genealogy program. If you are not ready to purchase the full-blown commercial version you may want to avail yourself of the free version.
2. The second reason this link is of interest is because it is the blog of the National Genealogical Society (NGS). Did you know the national headquarters is located in Virginia, near Washington, DC? The library collection of NGS has been located in St. Louis, MO for a number of years in the county library system.

National Genealogical Society Library

Did you know that the National Genealogical Society Library is no longer located in Arlington, VA? Several years ago the collection was transferred to the St. Louis County Library in St. Louis, MO. This accomplished two goals. First it physically located the collection nearer to the middle of the country. Second the St. Louis library agreed to make the items in the collection available through inter-library loan.

Yours truly donated two genealogies to the collection, one for the Watson family and the other for a branch of the Henthorn family.

This link will take you to a page where you can find links to other pages which explains all this in more detail.

St. Louis County Library - Special Collections Department

Mr. Dickie