As I sit here reading this, I realize that I have backed-up to CD, Memory Stick, External Hard Drive, and on-line, but if I have a fire or the server where I have my tree saved goes down - puff! I'm making a CD and taking it to my safety deposit box, NOW! If your file to too large for a CD backup to a DVD if you have a DVD writer - more than 4 GB of memory. Pat Ratcliff pratclif@earthlink.net Conover, NC > [Original Message] > From: Clifford Hayes <cliff.hayes@earthlink.net> > To: <NYOTSEGO-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: 12/2/2004 3:59:32 AM > Subject: Re: [NYOTSEGO] Years of work LOST > > Rosemarie, > > We all feel for you and wish there were some way to recover your data. > However, without being able to recover this information for you, let us use > your misfortune to warn others that the only way you can be certain to have > your data is to keep a copy, better two copies, in two different locations > so that even a fire destroying one will not cause the pain we know Rosemarie > is feeling. Even if you cannot afford a CD Burner, likely you can find a > friend who will burn a copy or two for you. Failing that, you should be > able to get a commercial business to do so for a small charge. Consider it > your insurance policy to avoid the misery that Rosemarie is suffering. > > And finally, don't feel smug that you have it all in your computer. Your > hard drive, like all others, IS GOING TO FAIL. The question is not IF but > WHEN. So beware, do NOT trust even your computer. From time to time > transfer your data to an external medium, a Zip disk, a CD, a DVD or other > external storage medium. Again, save it in two different physical locations > to secure the data in the event your primary storage area is gutted by fire. > > Rosemarie, I regret that we did not get this message to you in time. Can > you get Yahoo to recover your information or did they physically delete it? > If you have not asked, try it. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. > > Cliff Hayes > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rosemarie in WI." <Rosemarie547@webtv.net> > To: <NYOTSEGO-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 12:26 AM > Subject: [NYOTSEGO] Years of work LOST > > > > Recently, a member of this list complained to Yahoo geocities about my > > genealogy webpages. Because of her complaints Yahoo froze me out of my > > web pages. Because of this, I have LOST all my family genealogy, ALL my > > Ancestry back to 1630 RI. & Peter Wells. I have LOST my mother's > > Ancestry. It took my 30 yrs. to trace her ancestry since she was > > hospitalized after my birth, from a post-partum nervous breakdown & > > could never tell us anything about her past. > > ALL my ancestry is LOST because I took it ALL off my aging computer, put > > it on Yahoo geocities until I could afford a printer & I would then > > print it all out. It's ALL gone. > > 30 yrs. of digging, 100's of miles of travel to find courthouse records, > > cemetery records, church records, etc. > > ALL gone. > > Those of you who have done the same as me, all the time, digging, > > hopelessness & triumphant ecstasy, all the questions & exaspirations, > > all the joy, YOU know how I'm feeling right now because of this person & > > her misinterpretation of my files. > > To this unscrupulous person I'd like to say "Thanks. You've managed to > > destroy 30 yrs. of work in 1 day. I hope you're proud of your > > pontification & ability to play God with someone's webpages." > > I truly hope no one ever does to you what you've caused to be done to > > me. > > My genealogy is my only hobby. I'm homebound. I've been fighting > > leukemia for 2 yrs. & my webpages were for my family after I'm gone from > > this Earth. I've worked on my webpages between chemo treatments, between > > vomiting spells, between watching my hair fall out in clumps. My > > webpages have been my only solace from this disease. > > Thank you. > > Now, the Moderator of this list may feel free to cancel my membership of > > this list because I've expressed the pain in my heart. > > To the other people on this list, I pray she doesn't put her nose into > > your webpages & do this dirty deed to you. > > Happy Holidays, > > Rosemarie > > > > > > ==== NYOTSEGO Mailing List ==== > > To unsubscribe from this list in list mode send an email with the word, > > unsubscribe,in the subject field & body of the message to the following > > address: NYOtsego-l-request@rootsweb.com > > > > ============================== > > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. 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