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2023 Richard S. Lackey Memorial Scholarship Application

The following announcement was written by the Genealogical Institute on Federal Records (Gen-Fed) Alumni Association: 2023 Richard S. Lackey Memorial Scholarship Application Genealogical Institute on Federal Records (Gen-Fed) Alumni Association The Genealogical Institute on Federal Records (Gen-Fed) Alumni Association is sponsoring the Richard S. Lackey Scholarship. The Gen-Fed Alumni Association’s purpose is to promote, conduct, and …

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Backblaze Expects Hard Disk Drive Storage Costs to Hit One Cent per Gigabyte by 2025

I have written many times about the need for genealogists to make frequent backups of their more important files, both genealogy files and non-genealogy alike. I am also a big fan of storing backups in the cloud. (For instance, I make complete backups of my data  and store them on a separate hard drive in …

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Whatever Happened to Margo Georgiadis?

Margo Georgiadis is the former president and chief executive officer of Ancestry.com for the years 2018 to 2020. She was well-known throughout the genealogy community. Since leaving Ancestry, she almost dropped from site. I suspect that many of her former acquaintances will be glad to hear that she has re-surfaced. Margo is now a CEO-Partner …

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