Family Tree Folders to Organise your Documents
Personally, I think it depends what the document is. You can scan them into the computer and keep them safe there, but if the original is the only copy of an historic document, it would be a shame to chuck it out.
Plus computers can fail. It's better to have them on-line, rather than on your hard-drive, partly for that reason. But the hard-copy could easily be back-up too.
Obviously, if the paper is just a computer print-out to start with, then the impetus for keeping it is gone.
JoHarrington, Feb 14, 2012