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[di]

With the wealth of information stored about any one person on computers around the country/world I think family trees are likely to get easier to trace as the years go on.

You'll prob be able to feed a strand of hair into your pooter & instantly know all about you & all your ancestors!!

[HeyWayne]

You'll prob be able to feed a strand of hair into your pooter & instantly know all about you & all your ancestors!!

You been watching Gattica?

[Matt.]

Try and borrow photos, copy and return. My Dad traced his family tree and did just that from really old relatives! Modern printers come with top quality scanners built in and can even do great things like removing creases from old photos and boosting the colour contrast with a single click. You can then print them and put in ablums or view digitally. The key thing is to have multiple copies - hardrive, portable hardrive and CD/DVD - because you never know when these things will crash. Sure you can get the data recovered but its really expensive and it saves you the short term worry.

(Don't know about the hair bit. Thats a bit weird in my opinion but each to their own)

[di]

You been watching Gattica?

Not while I was Awake!?

[jackie j]

Matt we have a few photo's that we have borrowed and copied but as the rest of the family dont really have photo's of us as baby's or young children unless we were together as a family ( I'm talking 50 plus years ) we have managed to get photo's of my grandparents and aunts and uncles on dads side from other family members including my mum and dads wedding photo which I had to have the original one repaired and copied as my sister's dog got it. Its only when a family member has died that you realise whats missing. I have photo's of my later teenage years upto the present.
Thanks for listening.

[SlugLobber]

I love real photos, too, but have a digital camera, so print out a copy for me as well as having them on PC. I have hardly any pics of my family, though and I don't think I even have any of my sister. We're an odd family and I do feel we should sort that soon. I don't even know the names of my Grandparents on my Father's side - how bad is that? Maybe I should use this post as a kick up the bum.

Hope you manage to find a pic of just you and your sister, Jackie. Sorry to hear that she's no longer with you.

[Mikey]

With the wealth of information stored about any one person on computers around the country/world I think family trees are likely to get easier to trace as the years go on.

What happens if a computer equivalent of the aids virus comes along and wipes out the whole blinking system.

Also with this wealth of information does it not make it so much easier for someone to actually pretend to be you?, thus making our search that much harder!?, I tried to find me on facebook the other day, I found an awful lot of me, and they were all forgeries!!

[Kristen]

"What happens if a computer equivalent of the aids virus comes along and wipes out the whole blinking system"

Well the $mart Ar$e answer is that you should have backups, and they should be "off site" (in case of fire or whatever). Old fashioned printed photos are less likely to have "off site copies", other that different photos that friends etc. have taken, so I suppose in that way digital photography offers a potential benefit - albeit not one that everyone takes advantage of

Uploading your pictures, or the good ones at least, to Flickr or somesuch, or emailing them all to grateful grandparents (or even bored friends and relations!) would give you some safety - and you can have a private account there to stop paedo's ogling the pictures of your kids etc.