Upload any Document Type to Google Docs!

Google Docs now allows any type of document to be uploaded! After seeing this announcement I tried to upload my Gedcom and it does indeed work. This is one more place I recommend you back-up your data each month!

One more reason GeneaBloggers rocks

My recent post, Data Backup Weekend, was also an entry into the GeneaBloggers Data Backup Weekend Contest and, amazingly, I WON!  My prize is the Handy Backup Standard 6.4 by Novosoft LLC.  I am so excited to have this software, which will back up my computer on a monthly, weekly or daily (for those true OCD types) basis without my having to worry about it.  I am so excited to start playing with this new software and will let you all know what I think about it for the next Data Backup day:-)


Thank you GeneaBloggers and Novosoft LLC!

Data Backup Weekend

Due to the holidays, instead of just one Data Backup Day, we have a whole Data Backup Weekend!  My data backup plan consists of:

• An external hard-drive, which I backup to monthly, more if I have added a lot of information in a day or week.
• I email myself a copy of my gedcom on a monthly basis, in case my computer and external hard-drive fail.
• I have a Geni family tree which has names, dates, events and photos.

What I need to do:

• I am currently transcribing all the documents I have into my genealogy program.  Following that I will need to scan them and link them in the program.  This will protect my paper resources, if anything should happen to my apartment.
• I need to upload my scanned photos to my newly created Flickr account in case something happens to my computer and external hard-drive.
• I need to scan more photos, as I would be devastated if I lost some of these.
• I need to start saving a copy of my blog monthly to my computer and hard-drive, in case Blogger has a problem and loses it.

I highly recommend you, too, have a data backup plan that you are following.  It would be horrible to lose all your work when there are such simple things to do.

Data Backup Day!

It's the first day of the month, which means Data Backup Day for Genea-Bloggers.

I backup my entire computer on a weekly basis, more if I've been inputting a lot of information, onto my SimpleTech Signature Mini FS-U25/320H 320 GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive (in Black Cherry).

I also email myself a copy of my main genealogy file, both as a Legacy file and as a gedcom.  I am hopeful Google documents will one day include gedcom's as a supported file, but not yet...

My worst fear would be to spend a whole day adding new information and then just having the files disappear or get corrupted.

Next on my to do list is to start backing up my blog as well.

Don't lose your all your hard work - join us for Data Backup Day!