* Where to deposit all our family research?

[TimM]

It goes through my mind occasionally, what to do with all this hard won family data I, and everyone else here has accumulated? What does one do to ensure that future generations, setting out on the quest for family history, won’t have to start all over again, but will be able to locate the work already done.
One of the problems is, it may not be an immediate descendant, nor someone living in the same area looking for this stuff. So the thought of handing on your files to your children for safe keeping or depositing them with the local family history society may not help. Repositories like the LDS only seem to record the basic b.d.m. and parent/offspring data, and that, when it’s found, seems to be only available a generation at a time!
So the big question is: is there a repository somewhere for family history data that stores all the records, notes, links, multimedia – the lot?
If it exists, the next questions are: When to submit your data, because it’s always evolving, and how to update it?
Any thoughts? I’m sure most of us face the same issue!


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[archierex]

My Family Tree has many ramifications including different languages - Cornish, French, Basque, Greek and Iraqui.
I came to the conclusion that each 'family would receive 'their' version with linking Pluses to the nearest family that I have dealt with.
Their requirement are different to mine but at least I can give them something to expand upon.
Photo's would be embedded as well as any certificates.

[philjo]

The Society of Genealogists hold similar submissions of family pedigrees in their library for others to view.

I believe that they film these onto microfiche for searching within the library.

If you contact the SOG Librarian, she will be able to advise you.

Jeremy