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Genealogical info can often hide in funny places . . . WHERE IS YOURS HIDING?

Dennis J Yancey
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November 12, 2021 edited November 12, 2021 in General Questions
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Genealogical info can often hide in funny places . . .

WHERE IS YOURS HIDING?

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  • If you let it hide there for too long - it may ultimately forever be gone . . . 
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  • Have an old phone that you took family photos with, that you no longer use - but the photos are still there and never downloaded?
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  • Have some old Floppy Disks with genealogy info - but just not sure how to transfer the data?
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  • Have an old computer you no longer used - but with family info on it that never got transferred off?
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  • Have some old family videos that have been sitting around for years and you are not sure how to convert to digital?

  • Any old film negatives laying around - that you don't know how to develop?

  • Boxes you inherited up in the attic that you've never opened.

  • An old email account of with genealogy related emails you no longer access.

  • Photos hanging on the wall of old great aunt Jane - and she's about to pass - and who knows what will happen to the photos.
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  • Boxes of material of great aunt Mary has had in their house for years - - but due to bad health has never yet shared.
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  • In the minds of your great grandparents - who were just diagnosed with Alzheimers . . .
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  • family info on a work computer - - what happens if they give you the "pink slip"??
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  • where are your genealogical treasures hiding ???
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  • need some help in knowing how to get at them?
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  • PROCRASTINATION is the enemy of Family Research . . .
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  • what can you do today - to preserve the memories / life of your father/grandfather and others?
  • Upload something today to FamilySearch Memories.


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  • Gordon Hunter1
    Gordon Hunter1 mod
    November 18, 2021

    Good Morning Dennis.

    Thank you so much for the information that you have placed.

    Yes it truly is important that we add all the memories we have of our relatives to the Family Tree, before as you say it is lost forever. This is the Lords work, so that our relatives in the future have this infomation at hand.

    I knew nothing about my parents respective families and have learnt so much that I didn;t know, which has now been added to the world wide FamilySearch CommunialTree.

    Elder Gordon Hunter

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