In the January/February 2024 issue of Family Tree Magazine, they have introduced The Year Ahead, 366 genealogy tips will make 2024 your best research year yet by Lisa A Alzo. Lisa mapped out a day-by-day research plan.
January 11 – Transfer digital photos from your devices to your computer and/or your cloud storage account.
Remember when we said to backup your research. Well, our photos are pretty important too. Just recently, Shutterfly stated that they were going to remove customer’s photos from their computer if the customer hasn't ordered a product in a while. I read horror stories where Shutterfly deleted customers photos and it was the only place these precious photos lived. They lost all these photos.
Today’s computers have large hard drive capacity. Transfer or at least copy your photos from your devices to your computer and then incorporate those files into your backup system.
You might have purchased additional storage space with your phone’s cloud service, which is great. Thus, you can have many more photos at your fingertips. How many photos are on your phone? How do you find what you are looking for. Are they organized? With my iPhone, I can create categories for my photos. It’s a lot easier to find my photos, I just click on a category and now I see only a small subset of my photos. How would you feel if they all suddenly disappeared? Do you know how easy it is to delete a photo by accident? Again, this is why you want to have them stored in more than one place.
Remember to have fun and Just Do Genealogy!
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