Remember to backup your data

Computers are quirky. You just never know when something is going to go wrong with them. You want to make sure that you have multiple copies of your data. Imagine how devastated you'd be to lose your family database or all the scanned photos that a distant cousin emailed to you.

I've been using Mozy to save my files. It's a service that you download a small program and it will automatically backup your changed files as often as you specify. The original backup does take quite a while, but once that's done, it's pretty fast to update your backup.

The largest benefit to this is that it's an off-site backup. If your house burned down, having 100 backups won't do you any good if you kept them in your house.

You can get a free account to backup 2GB of data. Use my referral link (or type my referral code 4YXZQ1) and we'll both get another 256MB of free space. For each friend you refer after that who downloads and backs up their data once, you'll get an extra 256MB.

Why not give it a try? You've got nothing to lose and a lot to save!

Have you indexed today?

Most of us wish that there were more records online for free. Would you be willing to help out in hopes that you get back?

FamilySearch is seeking volunteers to help them index records. You sign up at http://www.familysearchindexing.org, download a little program and you're in business! When you run the program, you download from various projects that they are working on (always your choice of which one you want to do). Then, the original record is displayed on your screen while you type the data into a spreadsheet that is also on the screen. It's pretty easy, well, easy if the writing is readible. If a page is too difficult to read, you can reject it and get a different page that you can read, either in the same project or a different one.

Imagine the difference that could be made if we all indexed just one page a day. Please consider being a part of this great project.

Oh, and by the way, yes I indexed today!