Most of us in the genealogy field find ourselves with large amounts of information on our relatives. It challenges us to find a way to preserve it in a manner that in the future, near and distant, our descendents will be able to access this data in a timely and understandable manner.
Of course, the first thing that comes to mind is that you should have a printed copy of everything.This I did on good acid-free paper.There are different results that can be achieved. For instance, you can print out a fan type chart. I did that first. It took close to 65 pages of standard letterhead size paper.Then these had to be meticulously trimmed and taped together making a large five foot square.Another method was to print out a horizontal "format" chart.This involved the same number of sheets and after assembling them together, made a chart that was three feet wide by twelve feet long. This requires an empty wall in order to display it. As far as preserving them, it poses quite a problem.How long would something of this nature last rolled up and packaged? As we all realize, time is our enemy.