Mark Heckman

In the course of pursuing your family history you?ll collect a large amount of data ? names and dates, documents, pictures, and even audio and video recordings -- more and more of which you?ll probably digitize and store on your computer and share in e-mail, on CD or DVD, or on the Web. Some of this data is sensitive; all of it is precious and reflects countless hours of effort. But how safe is it? Is your data backed up? How long will backups last? And how safe from theft is data you put on the Internet? In this talk (a companion to another talk on "Computer Security and Privacy for the Genealogist"), Mark will discuss ways to preserve your digital genealogical data from loss and theft, both on your computer and online.