My Trails into the Past

This new year, I decided to get back to downsizing my genealogy files. I currently have one file drawer and three plastic file boxes full of files from thirty years of research. Now, most of the paper records are from over ten years ago as I now save mostly digital files. I would like to get the files down to one box. I think that would be manageable to pass down to the family (or perhaps as a donation). File folders before downsizing Save or Toss? So, what to keep and what to toss? Last year when I started this, the families I worked through were from the South and most of the folders held copies of census records and photocopies of indexes from books. It was easy to toss those as I have since downloaded digital files of census, marriage, and death records. I have also added deeds, tax, and probate records. If I copied pages from a history book, then I scanned those and tossed the photocopies. If the book was old and out of copyright, I would look for it on the Internet Archive and...