Gmail and other back up methods

The experts agree that copies of print outs on acid free paper distributed out of house to genealogical and other libraries are likely to have the longest shelf lives.

http://www.familysearch.org/
and
http://www.sog.org.uk/

and to the deposit libraries of the world like the Library of Congress and the British Library.

Digital formats may change, and CDrom and magnetic storage deteriorate but some MSS have survived for a thousand years or more.

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I use Family Tree Maker and copies of my family file are dotted around the web


private copies in full
1)
on a danish bbs in my webspace http://www.enterpol.byzonen.dk/
or http://www.net.dialog.dk/

2)
and emailed to myself as an attachment
on http://gmail.google.com/ where I have 1 gb free storage space
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/about.html

as a blogger http://hughw36.blogspot.com/
I was invited to have an account and if you wish an invitation ask me.

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THEN there are public versions which are "privatised" with living people minimised.

3)
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/a/t/Hugh-B-Watkins/index.html made by using the publish system of Family Tree Maker

4)

Auto published from FTM
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/

keywords
lapham watkins


takes me to it
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=:2938990
Watkins Lapham Riley Kristoffersen

my father
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2938990&id=I581182882

ME
Children
Living WATKINS

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2938990&id=I581183129

but my second wife is deceased
I really ought to write an obit for her too and put it in
Notes in FTM for the next upload

5)
I saved a gedcom from FTM file menu and uploaded it here
http://ancestry.co.uk/trees/main.htm
or
http://ancestry.com/trees/main.htm
is another version

search for Alfred Lapham son of Alfred Lapham to find it

6)

Some emails to list archives and postings to message boards include sections of my tree generated as FTM reports.

WITH about 1700 names this web presence enables cousins to find me especially from searches with patronymics and welsh village or farm names

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