Pat Connors, See my below P.S. regarding your easy-to-follow description of how you manage all your data. First I must say something about your regret in the sequel of the traditional Clare list. You have only the same liability that the Wright Brothers would have for their invention which also shrank the world but which can be in any one incident (highjacking, pilot error, corporate negligence in vehicle maintenance) the cause of incredible human misery when a plane goes down. Your act of creation far outshines any one individual's mishandling of the tremendous resource you made and maintained for us. How ever would I know that there were family members who survived and made it to the U.S. ? I can't get to Chicago to do the key obituary lookups, but Clare listmember Judie Mason of IL did for me and thus I have that all-important data. As well, Patrick McCarty and Ciaran O Murchadha were able to provide essential elements of the Irish end of the story only because the Clare list exists as a place to communicate. You ventured to put a mighty ship out on a vast ocean. Your captaincy was outstanding and appreciated. But both captains and passengers go on to other ships and other voyages. No one vehicle is all that critical, but a constant lot of them will accommodate the need to travel the Internet and meet other passengers along the way. Enough gushing for now, Sharon C. P.S. I know the kind of setup you were describing at your local FHC. I ran out and got my flashdrive in anticipation of doing the same thing at the new building for the National Archives in an Atlanta suburb. However, before I could get over there to use it, the facility director noticed that no one was showing up to use the huge room full of sophisticated computer equipment and row upon row of cabinets holding genealogy microfilms. So, one day when I could make the 2-hour round trip and get in two or three hours of research, I arrived to find the huge room darkened and empty. Although the NARA website still does not hint at this, 95% of the films are now stored in the basement and all the fancy machines are gone. The staff urges researchers to use Ancestry.com on the three simple onsite computers, the same as even the smallest public library can provide. Bizarre and truly a misfortune for family historians in this area. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Connors" <nymets11@pacbell.net> To: <irl-clare-projects@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 12:31 AM Subject: Re: [IRL-CLARE-PROJECTS] from one computer to another > Hi Sharon, I work with two computers, main desk top and laptop. Also, > at my local Family History Center, they have a machine that will scan > images from films into a computer. I use to use a number of the > external thumb drives (memory sticks, flash drives, etc. they go by a > number of names). You can get a gigabyte stick for $50 on sale at > Staples, sometimes even cheaper. > > I organize all my files in My Documents and categorize them in folders. > Like for my website, the different sections each have a folder, like Co. > Clare I call Connors-Clare (Connors=website, Clare=section). Once a > month, I copy all the folders to the memory sticks, it takes two. This > is my backup, in case of a crash. Also, when I travel I just update the > My Documents from the sticks to my laptop and will then have all my data > at hand, no matter where I am. That way, in down time, I can add and/or > update my webpages. > > Also, when I go to the FHC, if I have a new film, like the tithes that > are currently my project, I just copy/scan the images I want and then > when I go home, I can transcribe them at my leisure and in my pjs. This > is a wonderful invention, the scanner of images. I am working on a > project with volunteers transcribing the 1875 NYS census for Troy NY. I > just copy each page as an image which I can then send to a volunteer to > transcribe attached to an email. > > However, things got a bit messy because I had so many memory sticks, so > I bought and external hard drive, which holds 150 gigs. However, before > my trip to Florida, I realized I was using it wrong and I corrupted a > number of the files I had on it. It wasn't a great lost because it was > a backup. Now, when I find some time I need to get it formated and try > using it again. > > Sorry, this is so wordy, but I didn't know how to make it shorter. > Thanks for the kind words. I am sorry I gave up the Clare list, and the > Limerick list, and the Galway list but the last two turned into good > hands so now I am only sorry about the Clare list. > > -- > Pat Connors, Sacramento CA > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CLARE-PROJECTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message