Be sure and consider what happens if you are not at home when your house burns. If that happens you have lost all files that are stored at home . I put all my files on an external hard drive and keep it in my safety deposit box. I update it regularly. It just means you have to make a trip to the bank now and then. I actually use two hard drives and rotate them just incase one of the drives malfunctions. The hard drives have gotten so inexpensive that you cannot afford not the buy one or two. Royce ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 8:43 AM Subject: Re: [TXWISE] FYI--from another list >I have 4 portable file boxes with handles that I keep all of my files in >and > a notebook with plastic sheets to keep birth, death and marriage > certificates in. That way, I can grab the file boxes in a hurry. > I keep all of my photo albums deep in a hallway cabinet, not up in the > front > of the cabinet. When our house caught on fire back in 1997 every bit of my > genealogy survived. It all had soot on it and I spent months cleaning it > all up > but it survived. > I also send my Family Tree Maker database to myself via e mail and save it > in my saved e mail just in case something happens to my computer. I have > AOL > and I save it to "Saved on AOL". That way I can retrieve it from anywhere > that > I am. > I also upload my database to a web site with photos and documents so that > I > can always print them off again or burn them to a CD and get the photos > remade > just in case something happens to my originals. >>From someone who has been there! > > Julie > > > > ************************************** See what's free at > http://www.aol.com. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > >

For any of you without a scanner... the one hour photo scanner that is at your local drug store, will scan documents just the same as a photo... and put on cd for about $3.00. What I don't currently know, is an estimate of how many image files can be on one cd?? Also... a plain jane low end printer is almost as cheap now as the ink cartridge. I had been wanting to splurge on a 3 in 1 (printer-scanner-copier) but figured it was out of the budget. When I got around to browsing at Walmart, I found that the prices had gone down to about $50 for one, and it includes a USB port to plug in a digital camera. Caution on the email storage online... I had a long time account at Yahoo, which was a designated storage area. I was devastated one day to log in, and find it had been erased, since it had not been used in 4 months!! When backing up things, if your email is on your computer at home, don't forget to get that backed up. Now I'm feeling guilty about what I know I should be doing, but have not.

Also, not to advertise for anyone, the Walgreens Drug Store will develop your photos and somehow you can download them to anyone anyplace ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wendy Caldwell" <[email protected]> To: "R Royce Raven" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 2:17 PM Subject: Re: [TXWISE] FYI--from another list | For any of you without a scanner... the one hour photo scanner that is at | your local drug store, will scan documents just the same as a photo... and | put on cd for about $3.00. What I don't currently know, is an estimate of | how many image files can be on one cd?? | Also... a plain jane low end printer is almost as cheap now as the ink | cartridge. I had been wanting to splurge on a 3 in 1 | (printer-scanner-copier) but figured it was out of the budget. When I got | around to browsing at Walmart, I found that the prices had gone down to | about $50 for one, and it includes a USB port to plug in a digital camera. | Caution on the email storage online... I had a long time account at Yahoo, | which was a designated storage area. I was devastated one day to log in, and | find it had been erased, since it had not been used in 4 months!! When | backing up things, if your email is on your computer at home, don't forget | to get that backed up. | Now I'm feeling guilty about what I know I should be doing, but have not. | | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message |