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The Games are over…

Posted in Civil War, back-up, events on Aug 23rd, 2008

…so it’s back to research!
I’ve returned to my Appling’s of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. This morning I found the Civil War Service Records (Confederate) for 4 of William Appling’s sons at footnote.com. I normally wouldn’t be researching this far laterally from my direct line, but I simply can’t resist anything Civil War! Most of these are [...]

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On the subject of backing up and organizing

Posted in back-up, organization, technology on Aug 19th, 2008

For the past few days, I have been working on my Genea-Bloggers Group Games events. I have added descriptions and tags to 43 images that I have saved in the database of my great-great grandfather, Miles Francis Stanley I.
Part of that time was spent trying to figure out the best way to describe/tag/upload using the [...]

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A back-up solution

Posted in back-up on Apr 18th, 2008

Once upon a time, I had a zillion digital images saved on my computer. Well, one day my daughter was using my computer and called me at work to ask “Mom, what does fatal exception mean…?”
Needless to say, it was the dreaded “blue-screen-of-death” and my hard drive had crashed! Fortunately, my daughter also had a [...]

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One more resolution…

Posted in back-up, events, technology on Dec 25th, 2007

A near disaster a couple of days ago made me think of one more New Year’s Genealogy Resolution: Back-up your data often!
On Sunday, I got home from work and logged onto my computer and got on the ‘Net. An Internet Explorer page (I use Firefox) kept popping up, something called Internet Speed Monitor with different [...]

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