I am glad Flo was able to recover her data. She makes a good point that
hard copies are just as susceptible to loss as electronic data. What about
all the people who lost their paper files because of Katrina! Many have
lost years of research because of fires, floods, hurricanes, and other
similar tragedies. They had no backup. How do you back up hard copies?
Electronic backup of computer files is absolutely necessary whether you make
hard copies or not. Even if you were able to find your paper files again
like Flo, think of all the work it would be to input that data.
Since census images came out as digital images I have gotten at least 10
times the number of images I had before. The hard copy ones I had took
years to get and it took 2 or more sheets to copy all the information. With
the digital images I can zoom in and out to view the whole page. Most of
the digital images took less than a month to collect!
Lewis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Flo in Texas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Why save copies of census records?
You are correct Sharon. When I started inputting my information I had a
large amount. I inputting and pitched into a box which I passed on to be
sister so she could start her file. I was so new did not know I could do
it once and pass it on to the whole family by various means. Needless to
say my computer crashed and I lost it all, no back up. I just gave up as
some of the information was directly from family, hard to duplicate or
find as they were not passed over. About a year later my sister called to
ask me what this box was that said genealogy on it. She found it in her
storage under her upstairs steps. I nearly screamed I was so excited. I
told her I was making the 10 hr. round trip the next day to get it not to
let anyone touch it. I got it back and used Legacy this time and have
been going ever since.
As for back up, on what- you are correct use the latest- I had some on zip
disk and had to get a friend to put them on CD's as I had gotten rid of my
machine that had the zip drive. I now treat this information as one of
my most prized possessions, it is.
Flo
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