Have You Protected Your Collection?

Chrisian Fandt wrote: I want to second this and third this message. I'm in another hobby, science fiction fanzines, where we just lost one of the most significant collections of the last 50 years. And all because the collector didn't write it's disposition exactly in his will. He left most of his estate to his church. The fanzines were left to a University collection. He mentioned this is letters and conversations - but not in the will. But probate ruled that the church gets everything since it wasn't in the will. The church wass fighting to keep the stuff because they smell big money. So the collection now is lost to the group that would appreciate it most. I know of two major collections of science fiction lost the same way. One of them was original art worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Is your collection going to the dump? Will your kin know what to do with it? Will the books and tapes be tossed? If you value the effort you put into it, protect your collection. Write it up - talk to your heirs. Billy