Genealogy Chat

Just read this thread with interest as my PC is nearly 10yrs old now. No-wonder its a bit slow! Hubby backed up his laptop only 3 days before it crashed and he lost everything. Thank goodness he did as there was all his own Fam Hist. and 100's of photos.
Me - I put all my photos into folders and onto our ext hard drive and at the end of each year I transfer them to CD. Works for me.
Also my FH is a real mix of photos, word docs etc etc and they are all on our ext hard drive. When I work on one I copy it over to PC whilst working and re-save it to hard drive... again - works for me.

I'm a bit of a paper person too as I have a folder with sections for each family surname which hold printouts of all emails and replies. Works for me as I wasn't very techy when I first started all this.

Must say, never thought about memory stick *son raises eyes skywards*! What a great idea. That way we won't be fighting over who has the hard drive either !

As I hinted earlier, Memory Sticks and CD's are NOT the best idea. Far better is an external drive coupled with a file backup program.

Still no good if your house goes up in smoke. If you want to insure against the latter then use a web based storage system.