I am currently going through all my genealogy family and research hanging files and folders. I have been scanning anything that I have collected during personal trips and personal letters into my computer. The original letters I am keeping if they pertain to my family.
I have many family trees sent to me and pages and pages of census records that I copied from microfiche and US census rolls. Since those are available online now, I have been able to shred those after getting the information I need from them.
I have hundreds of old photographs. I am scanning them into my computer, and making sure they have captions. I am keeping the photos.
I have been doing a pretty good job of thinning the excess. I know I will still have a bookshelf full of historical and county books an a couple of file drawers with information that cannot be replaced.
I DO have Carbonite, and it has saved me several times. I have recently bought an external drive. I haven't uploaded my tree to Ancestry yet, but I will. I need to add sources and citations to my tree first.
I have downloaded Dropbox, but I am not really sure what to do with it!
I've been doing family history since I was 12 years old when I started going to my great grandmother's house for lunch when I was in junior high school.
