Hi,          Just another suggestion. I have mine backed up to a thumbnail drive, passport drive and am going to get a bigger external harddrive. I won't keep the external one plugged in all the time to my tower. It will be plugged in only when I am adding something to it. The other small ones I keep put up. I have downloaded not only my gedcom files, but am in the process of scanning all pictures that I have inherited from my mom, aunt and ones that I have taken over the years and putting them on those as well.   Carla --- On Fri, 2/22/13, anthro20061@yahoo.com <anthro20061@yahoo.com> wrote: From: anthro20061@yahoo.com <anthro20061@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [ENG-MAN] GORDON WEST To: eng-manchester@rootsweb.com Date: Friday, February 22, 2013, 11:51 PM In the future u should upload your family tree to ancestry.com like what I do just in case if it gets lost you got a backup online The file should be on your hardrive still you should have ur harddrive recovered Sent from my HTC EVO Design™ 4G from Boost Mobile ----- Reply message ----- From: "Pauline Kirschner" <pdk235@bigpond.com> To: "Manchester" <ENG-MANCHESTER@rootsweb.com> Subject: [ENG-MAN] GORDON WEST Date: Fri, Feb 22, 2013 11:15 pm An urgent plea to our List leader! A relative who lives in the USA has helped me, over the years,  to compile my family tree, but I have found that it has been deleted by an 'expert' who came to clean up my pc.  I am, to put it mildly, a bit miffed but I wonder if Gordon West is still on the list and if so, could he please contact me as he may still have my family tree on his pc, in the form of a GEDCOM. I would be very pleased if either our list leader, or Gordon himself could contact me, either through the list or privately. Many thanks Pauline K   :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: Except for personal messages, please post replies to the list. Other people can learn from them! Be sure list mail is in PLAIN TEXT. Please SNIP when replying. Buy or sell family research items on the GEN-MAT-UKI mailing list.  No fees!  :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-MANCHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message   :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: Except for personal messages, please post replies to the list. Other people can learn from them! Be sure list mail is in PLAIN TEXT. Please SNIP when replying. Buy or sell family research items on the GEN-MAT-UKI mailing list.  No fees!  :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-MANCHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message