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Keeping it for posterity
« on: Sunday 17 July 05 12:33 BST (UK) »
 :o Just a reminder for all of us compiling information on family or local history.  We may have websites, but those are not permanent.  We may have loads of stuff on our computers, but that isn't permanent either.  We may have files full of documents and charts, but all that could moulder away after we've gone if no one thinks it's important.  So this is a plea to donate our research to a library or record office which can catalogue and preserve it.  If you've written up your family history as a narrative, give a copy to whichever local record offices have an interest.  The same goes for transcripts of wills and any other stray bits of information we've acquired along the way.  I work in an FE college which has a Local History Unit, and that's getting a copy of my research into the building I live in.  I know this is teaching my grandmother to suck eggs as far as most of you are concerned, but I just wanted to prod those who haven't thought about it yet.
Godden in East Sussex, mainly Hastings area.
Richards in Lea, Gloucestershire, then London.
Williamson in Leith, Vickers in Nottingham.
Webb in Bildeston and Colchester.
Wesbroom in Kirby le Soken.
Ellington in Harwich.
Park, Palmer, Segar and Peartree in Kersey.