Peter,good advice. But my 2 cents on putting ALL memorabilia in one place is 'Don't'. Had one of those boxes stolen (who knows why?) and another time had my special box contents sold at a garage sale by mistake. Painful to lose all that special stuff in such a stupid way, so I'd rather keep it split up a bit.

For other paranoids: SCAN ALL the family photos, put on cds, and mail copies to relatives. You'll never all lose your irreplaceable photos to a fire, flood or f*-up.