[Genealib] addresses on information requests

[Naukam, Larry]

Things have changed during the 30 years that I have been here. At one
time every letter was kept, along with the library's responses. These
took up a whole wall of a publically accessible office.  To save space
they were all discarded, kit and caboodle. (I am not to blame! I as
working in another city at the time!)

In 2009, we almost never get a paper letter asking for genealogical
information. If we do, we answer it, briefly, and keep an electronic
copy on our server, but only staff can see it. 

If people want to donate family info, they can leave it for our
"Genealogical Round Table" file (so named for the group that purchased
the file cabinets. It's filed alphabetically and there is a listing of
general family names, but not an every name index.

Seems as tough most research correspondence is done via email to us, or
on message boards. I was contacted by a family member who found my
contributed data at a neighboring county library VF of names. But we are
very careful to observe good privacy practices. If someone were to be
researching name XYZ, and later I came upon someone else researching the
same family, I probably would mention it verbally.