Monday Madness: A Question of Back-ups

We all know how important it is to make off-site back-ups of our genealogical data. Watched the news this past weekend? Did you see what’s left of the Dallas Cowboys practice facility in Irving, Texas after a fierce storm and microburst winds hit the structure? Well, that same storm came through my neighborhood only about [...]

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Another death in the family? Maybe not…

As genealogists, we frequently reference the deaths of ancestors. This is different kind of death, however:
GeoCities seems to be on its last breaths:
Current GeoCities customers:
After careful consideration, we have decided to close GeoCities later this year. We’ll share more details this summer. For now, please sign in or visit the help center for [...]

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Store those .pdf files online… for free!

It seems most free online image-storing sites don’t deal with .pdf files. Flickr and Picasa Web Albums, the 2 that I have dealt with, don’t store .pdf files.
I have collected quite a few .pdf files in my research, many are newspaper articles from GenealogyBank. Even though I backup my files fairly frequently, I still want [...]

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The Games are over…

…so it’s back to research!
I’ve returned to my Appling’s of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. This morning I found the Civil War Service Records (Confederate) for 4 of William Appling’s sons at footnote.com. I normally wouldn’t be researching this far laterally from my direct line, but I simply can’t resist anything Civil War! Most of these are [...]

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On the subject of backing up and organizing

For the past few days, I have been working on my Genea-Bloggers Group Games events. I have added descriptions and tags to 43 images that I have saved in the database of my great-great grandfather, Miles Francis Stanley I.
Part of that time was spent trying to figure out the best way to describe/tag/upload using the [...]

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A back-up solution

Once upon a time, I had a zillion digital images saved on my computer. Well, one day my daughter was using my computer and called me at work to ask “Mom, what does fatal exception mean…?”
Needless to say, it was the dreaded “blue-screen-of-death” and my hard drive had crashed! Fortunately, my daughter also had a [...]

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One more resolution…

A near disaster a couple of days ago made me think of one more New Year’s Genealogy Resolution: Back-up your data often!
On Sunday, I got home from work and logged onto my computer and got on the ‘Net. An Internet Explorer page (I use Firefox) kept popping up, something called Internet Speed Monitor with different [...]

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