The VA-ROOTS Digest has good points for us to ponder...there are likely a goodly number of us who've gathered a lot of data and have nowhere, plausibly, to place it. I have over 40 years into genealogy and about 200,000 names. I've tried to put the stuff near obviously-close-to-the-site repositories--logical places for genies to find. I no longer am considering the LDS folks as I have seen what they have allowed the Ancestral File to become plus the shameless peddling of our stuff in their new disks called "Pedigree Resource Files." While we owe the LDS folks a lot of thanks for the contribution to genealogy, this new haughty approach by the church hierarchy is certainly not the good-natured posture I've experienced in the past. SO...I am putting some of my stuff at the Library of VA, some in the Germantown Historical Society...and other user-friendly places. Perhaps archives will be able to accept GEDCOMs and other storage-sensible means. We need to further discuss this, and I salute you all for your welcome input. Thank you. Erik P Conard, PhD, a rustic genie from five generations of Kansans To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html