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Latest Preservation Technology for Genealogists
Keeping Up With Technology
Dick EastmanMarch 4, 2017
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Today’s slides are available at:
http://www.eogn.com/handouts/preservation
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The Latest Technology for Genealogists
• Today’s presentation will focus on two areas:
– How to make sure your genealogy data is still readable by future generations
– How to easily share as little or as much information as you wish
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Paper and Ink
Paper
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Paper and Ink
Paper is one of the most fragile storage methods available!
Easily destroyed by fire, moisture, mold, mildew, insects, and more.
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Paper and Ink
PaperAcids?Acid free?
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Paper and Ink
InkReal inkInk jetToner
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Microfilm
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MicrofilmLife Expectancy is 200 to 300 years… if stored in optimal conditions… and if it is never used!
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MicrofilmScratches easilyRequires master copies that are only used to make copiesEven then, suffers some degradation
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MicrofilmProblem:
Most manufacturers no longer produce new microfilm!
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MicrofilmEven FamilySearch has abandoned microfilm and gone all digital for all new projects.
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MicrofilmMore than 185 digital camera crews are now at work throughout the world, capturing images six days a week.
FamilySearch now creates an average of 10 new digital images every second of every day and publishes them at familysearch.org within a matter of weeks.
Reference:https://familysearch.org/node/1615
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MicrofilmFamilySearch is digitizing all the records in its granite vaults. Millions of rolls of microfilm, captured in more than 100 countries since 1939, will be digitized, and then indexed by a massive volunteer force.
Expected completion date: less than 10 years from now for digitizing and making images available online.
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MicrofilmOther non-profits, including Internet Archive and Allen County Public Library (one of the country's largest genealogy libraries), are digitizing content.
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How Can You Preserve Your Data?
• Create Digital Files
• Make multiple copies
• Store them in multiple places
• Keep them spinning!!!
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Make multiple backups!
• Make them on multiple forms of media: CD, DVD, USB jump drives, external hard drives, online (in the cloud), etc.
• Never, ever depend on one backup!• Store your backups in multiple locations• Keep them spinning!!!
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Online Backups are the Cheapest!
• Free of charge (up to 2 gigabytes on many services, even more on a few services)
• Paid Services start at $0.02 per gigabyte per month (Amazon Glacier)
• Much cheaper than purchasing a hard drive!• But requires a broadband connection
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Many Services to Choose From!
• Mozy• Backblaze• Dropbox• iBackup• Carbonite• CrashPlan• Mega.nz• … and many more
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Make multiple backups!
• Again, never depend on any one backup
• Make multiple backups
• To different media
• Save them in different locations!
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Part 2 – Sharing Data
• Let’s Focus on Two Closely-Related Terms:
– Cloud Computing
– Online Everywhere
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What Is Cloud Computing?
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Cloud Computing is the Sharing of Resources, typically across the
Internet
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Cloud Computing
• Cloud computing can simply be the sharing of disk space…
• Or the sharing of applications on different computers
• With remote access by an individual
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Cloud Computing
• Data can be preserved forever by…
• Periodically copying it to new media, both online and offline.
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Current Examples of Cloud Computing include:
• Gmail• HotMail• Google Docs• Various backup programs• Online photo editing programs• MyHeritage.com• Ancestry.com
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Placing your information in the cloud provides flexibility: you have many
options
• Keep all your information private but protected and backed up in state-of-the-art data centers
• Share bits and pieces of your information but only with people you choose
• Share with groups of people but only with passwords
• Make information freely available to everyone
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You remain in control of your information at all times
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Examples of SHARED Cloud Computing Services include:
• Ancestry.com’s OneWorldTree• RootsWeb• OneGreatFamily.com• FamilySearch• And other online databases with information
contributed by users• The information you contribute is “pooled”
with info supplied by others
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In contrast, you can be “webmaster” and control all access to your
information:
• The Next Generation• WebTrees.net• MyHeritage.com
• And other products where one person or one group controls all access
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What is a computer?
• One third of the world's population is now carrying a smartphone.
• More than 1 billion smartphones have been sold.
• There are many family history apps.
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What is a computer?
• The form factor of iPads, tablet computers, and smart phones make them convenient for people doing family history from anywhere.
• Millions of genealogists are taking snapshots of tombstones or other kinds of documents, and uploading them to "the cloud" where they are accessible on various web sites.
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Cloud Computing Allows You To:
• Remain in control of your own information at all times, if you wish to do so
• Easily find matching information supplied by others and to allow others to find matching information within your database
• Provide security and redundancy by backups• Access your information from anywhere at
any time.
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You Can Preserve Forever and Share Your Data as YOU Wish!
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Any questions?
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Today’s slides are available at:
http://www.eogn.com/handouts/preservation