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Thank you Gents for your replies.
Rodney I too have inherited all of the old family photo albums, and as many of the photos date back to the early 1900, they are not easily removed from their mount to scan. Most are covered by acetate sheet which makes getting them out difficult. I believe a mix of careful storage of those hard copies (which honestly will continue deteriorate), and cloud based storage for soft copies. I am happy with Astrobin, but you may recall that they had a server crash a few years ago and for awhile all of my gallery was lost. Eventually everything was recovered but I was convinced it was all lost.
I do recognise that future generations may have no interest in at of this, but at least as far as my children and grand children are concerned I believe they would tend to my wishes, especially if my estate covers the cost for another generation. My grand kids delight in visiting Grandpa's Cubby House (As they refer to my observatory), and love watching Sharpcap build a stacked image before their eyes. So the connection to my images is allready established in them, but the next generation -who knows. We can only plan based on the present situation. My son is an electrical engineer and runs a RAID storage system at his house, and his wife is a professional family photographer, so archiving her images is already being done. I am thinking his system might be the obvious hardware solution. I can download my stuff from Astrobin in high resolution files, it will take awhile but I have time hopefully.
Thanks for the suggestions. Glen
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