Having your key documents available in multiple formats can be one of the most critical aspects of your doomsday preparations. The first part of this is determining what documents you need to have and the second is making sure they are available to you in case of an emergency. To do this, you will create a document kit that contains all of your critical information.

The documents you want to have are, simply enough, the documents that define your life. Your identification documents, insurance documents, property titles and any other critical documents that you would be lost without. A list of the documents you will want follows:

-Drivers Licenses/Social Security Cards/Military ID/etc.

-Birth and Marriage Certificates (also Death Certificates and Divorce documents if relevant)

-Passports

-Insurance ID Cards

-Property/Vehicle Titles

-List of Bank/Savings/Retirement Account Numbers

-Important Legal Documents such as Wills

-Medical Records

-Home inventories

-Family Pictures (this last is mainly important to you but can be used as ID if searching for a lost loved one)