Where do you keep your tree?

[phenolphthalein]

Sorry it might sound boastful but a lot in my head.. Lots of saved certs, lots of word docs, lots of papers and books.  Will never have on-line tree.
pH

[rogerb]

I started on Ancestry so that's where I keep my info.  I also download the Gedcoms from time to time as back up.

But reading this thread and also one from a week or 2 ago, I'm looking at some sort of PC based programme.

[Guy Etchells]

Sorry you may find that both data sets have been trashed. If the set that has been trashed syncs itself to the older "good" set it will trash the good data set.

You do not want backups to talk to each other under any circumstances.
Cheers
Guy

I keep my FTM tree on a cloud service, and sync to ancestry. Safest way I know.

Martin
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I used to host a number of my webpages on Rootsweb, a cloud service that made frequent backups. This all worked fine for around 15 or so years then one day a large number of the Rootsweb pages disappered, after about a month an apology was presented with the news their backups had also failed, luckily I had all my work on my desktop computer here at home and was able to more or less replace what was lost on a different server. I say more or less as I have still (about 7 years later) not updated a number of the interconnecting links, all the pages can be viewed but a few of the convienient links between the pages do not connect as they point to old servers.

That taught me never to trust automatic backups, syncing etc., instead I use manual backups and check each backup before I rely on it to be safe.
Ok some may think I have lost the plot but better that than lose years of work.
Cheers
Guy

[AllanUK]

Quote from Guy:

That taught me never to trust automatic backups, syncing etc., instead I use manual backups and check each backup before I rely on it to be safe.
Ok some may think I have lost the plot but better that than lose years of work.
Cheers
Guy

When I was still working, our servers were scheduled to do nightly back ups but after a failure, we were advised to manually back up our daily work on secondary hard drives. As Guy says, it's better to rely on yourself for back ups as no one wants to lose years of research.

Allan

[StefanD99]

I have my trees laid out on basic spreadsheets in diagramatic form, based on each grandparent. Each has one for direct ancestors and one which includes the siblings of each generation. They contain only limited birth/baptism and marriage information.
Other information, bmd and census records are recorded in word documents, one for each surname branch.
I have colour tagged people in entries to make it easier to follow them through their lives.
These files are occasionally backed up, manually, onto a storage hard drive. This proved very useful when
my laptop died recently.
Stefan

[KateW]

Ancestry for me and Family Tree Maker. They sync with each other, so that if anything happens to one, I still have the other. 

Regards 

Chas

Kiltpin, Just out of interest, as I have a very old version of Family Tree Maker, do you know if I'd be able to move my saved records from the version I am using, if I were to buy a new version?
Thanks.

[Kiltpin]

Ancestry for me and Family Tree Maker. They sync with each other, so that if anything happens to one, I still have the other. 

Regards 

Chas

Kiltpin, Just out of interest, as I have a very old version of Family Tree Maker, do you know if I'd be able to move my saved records from the version I am using, if I were to buy a new version?
Thanks.

 

I had an older version and bought the latest. The latest version knew about the older one and disabled it and retrieved all the data from it. I did not have to do anything. It did ask to be synced, which I did. Then it said I was up to date.   

Regards 

Chas