Technology is a two edged sword. Over time technologies are updated and your valuable research vanishes into the ether.
You wont find my original research on rootsweb, it's vanished.
Neither will you find my tree on gencircles because gencircles has vanished.
My original ancestry.co research also vanished and so too did the replacement.
I used to think my computer was a failsafe place too but over time updated computer programmes won't open dated programmes and additionally there are gremlins about that manage to make possessions such as backup disks, copying paper, memory sticks, ink in the cartridges, disappear like magic.
Exactly. This is why my husband (a computer programmer) doesn't trust "the cloud." I have digital files for my genealogy but I also print everything and put it into binders. (I know I should also have off-site storage in case of fire, flood, etc., but that's not do-able right now.)
