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Lynn H
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I have been sitting here reading some threads and it got me thinking, who can i get to take over my family history research after i'm gone. (Not that i plan on going for a while yet) but i have no family members that are remotelly interested in what i'm doing and it breaks my heart to think it will end. I have written letters to my kids, and asked them not to destroy all the hard work i've done, in the hopes that interest will come with age. Does anyone have any suggestions on what i can do to get them interested?
Lynn.
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Lynn H
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Hi rover, i wish i had your attitude toward my tree, but unfortunately i don't. I have worked long and hard to get my information and i'll be damned if i'll let it all go to waste.
Lynn.
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petersgill
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Hi, You may be surprised to find that your kids will be more keen that you thought to ensure your hard work is at least taken care of. They may just be thinking you can do it all so they don't need to know how.
My dad was always telling us about his latest finds and I wish he had been a bit more pushy insisting that I take a proper look at how he organised things and updated his website. My brother and I are short of time but my daughters are also interested and between us we will keep things updated if nothing else for now.
Very useful to know about the libraries as well.
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Mum44
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Peter -
Welcome to Rootschat 
I'm a pushy parent - but my son shows no interest at all! I don't want to push too hard, because at least at the moment he listens - don't want to put him off altogether.
On-line storage seems the best idea - but the only interest he shows in my website at the moment is the technical side - content doesn't inspire him!
Still, there's hope yet - and I plan to keep it in front of him - not that it's that missable, being in about 10 large folders in the front room!
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Names: Titchfield, Hampshire: Reed, Fielder, Cawte.
Kent: Float, Cutbush.
Wallasey, Cheshire: Carroll, Ledsham.
Liverpool : Horsfall, Prescott
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Lynn H
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Mum44. Thats it. !!!!!!!! 
I'll get him to get involved by designing a website for me. He is very good with computers as thats his job. If i keep him interested that way, he may just stay with it. He always listenes to what i am telling him and has said that when he gets to my age he might start to do it. He's only 27 so he has a long way to go. This could just work!
Thankyou for all the input.
Lynn.
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drodgers34
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One day there will be a consolidation of all the various family tree websites on the net - it might already have started to happen.
In a decade or so it will be clear where to deposit your findings with the knowledge they will be preserved for hundreds even thousands of years.
The biggest worry would be it might necome politically fashionable to seek and wipe out such knowledge (as has happened over and over in history)
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Trees
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Thats exactly what we have done our son has been visiting record offices and has been a huge help but isn't that keen, but every now and then a story turns up that he can get his teeth into At the moment its a photograph taken by one of my late uncles of a telegram from Hitler to an air crew before the war Son has had it translated and researched the event it refers to even found photos of the plane so he's interested in the stories if not the genealogy.
Good luck in fanning the spark of interest into a blazing fire.
Welcome to Rootschat Ronica and peter let us know how we can help
Trees
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mezentia
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Hello Trees
You can alway try donating your research to the Genealogical Society. I have a distant relative who spent decades researching one branch of my tree, before computers too, and he did just this. One of his ancestors has now collated all the paper documents and transcribed them onto a computer and is trying to sort out the remaining "problems". As a result of their work, I managed to solve a mystery on my tree, and with some extra spadework on my part, we also solved a couple of the other outstanding problems.
Alternatively, if you've got some half decent software that can be used to create a printable report, you could get everything printed and bound ...
David
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Anderson - Leics., Yorks.; Attwood - Worcs., Staffs., Salop; Baylis - Worcs.; Beach/Bache - Worcs., Staffs., Salop; Bills - Devon, Worcs.
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Hill - Worcs., Staffs., Salop; Sherwood - Worcs., Staffs.; Stonyer - Worcs., Staff., Salop, Essex
Woodall - Worcs., Staffs.; Potter - Essex.
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