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Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 5,093 Send Message	littlelegs	Report	17 Sep 2010 11:19
	hi all just a warning my daughter delated my tree the other day [by mistake] and i have no back up [i have it all wrote on paper] but now i have to do my tree all over again so please be careful and have some sort of back up for your tree lorraine
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 49,504 Send Message	Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it	Report	17 Sep 2010 12:43
	I have FTM so if i accidentally did delete the genes tree i could do a gedcom and reinstall it. You cant do a back up of the genes tree. I back up my FTM to a memory stick
	Researching: Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 23,482 Send Message	MargaretM	Report	17 Sep 2010 13:11
	Very risky to have your only tree online.I also have FTM at home plus backup on cd.
	Researching: Great grandmother Dorothy Bean nee Abbott (1858-1908)
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 7,819 Send Message	InspectorGreenPen	Report	17 Sep 2010 13:34
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 7,819 Send Message	You can back up your GR tree. Just take a gedcom export from time to time and save is somewhere safe.