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Simple Backup Strategies — Protecting Your Family History Research
If you spend time researching your family history, your computer probably contains years of work: census records, certificates, scanned photographs, family stories, research notes, and carefully built family trees. Losing that data through a computer failure or accidental deletion can be devastating. The good news is that backing up your files does not need to…
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Using Newspapers in Family History
The stories behind our ancestors When we start researching our family history, we tend to focus on the “big” records — birth certificates, census returns, marriage records and wills. These are essential, of course, but they only tell us the bare facts. If you really want to bring your ancestors to life, newspapers are one…