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Regarding photos I keep negatives in our safe deposit box, but haven't made a DVD with the digital ones - probably should.
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I get worried about DVDs degrading over time. Some of the higher-end photo sharing sites (I prefer SmugMug) make monthly backup tapes of your uploaded digital photos and keep them in multiple geographic locations. I pay $40 a year, and I've kept all our photos online since I got my camera. Wedding and honeymoon photos (full files, non-compressed) are up there, and I have the peace of mind of knowing that they won't be lost to a disaster. We periodically burn DVDs of our laptop contents and keep them with passports and important docs in a fireproof safe.
I also use gmail as both an e-mail provider and as a searchable extension of my brain. All my address book items are in there somewhere.