The first of every month is backup day--time to make backups of whatever you've digitized as a way of keeping precious genealogy data safe.
Family History Month is an especially good time to remember to back up all of these files: scanned photos, digitized documents, electronic reports, and gedcoms.
Ideally, have a backup of your genealogy files on an external drive you can access quickly, also backing up onto a second external drive you keep off-site, and a backup in the cloud as well.
Backups help protect our family's history for the next generation and preserve what we've learned in our years of genealogy research!
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