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Back-up!

ome problems in life are unforeseen and unavoidable, but we all know we’d be heart-broken if we lost our family history research, so let’s be sure to back it up. (Cough. At this point in writing the article I stopped what I was doing, plugged in my shiny new external hard drive, and backed up my family history files – something that I’d been meaning to do for longer than I care to admit. If you’re in the same position as me, do it – go on,

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