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WANTED DEAD or ALIVE: LONE STAR SERIAL NUMBER INFO
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<blockquote data-quote="bobberboy" data-source="post: 390723" data-attributes="member: 1417"><p>It's too bad when stuff like that happens. I once attempted to search my family on Ancestry.com and was only able to go back 2 generations. There had been a fire and much of the 1890 census records were destroyed. The critical census for my search was that one and I could not make the necessary ties to pre-1890 in order to continue the history. It was disappointing. Future generations will be disappointed with us when all this digital information we save won't be available. I'm not sure what the correct terms are but with all the changes in platforms and software already I have records that have been proven to be useless. I used to do a lot of CAD type drawings on a MAC. At a point the software company evaporated leaving me with no ability to access or recover my drawings. It's happened in other ways too. Got floppy discs? Got Zip drives? And think of all the history lost because people stopped writing, first because they could call long distance and then email and texting. Anybody have texts from your grandma tied up with a satin ribbon? I'm a lover of history and it worries me that our so-called paperless society will leave us without a history. I should offer the disclaimer that I have one foot firmly in the 19th century.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobberboy, post: 390723, member: 1417"] It's too bad when stuff like that happens. I once attempted to search my family on Ancestry.com and was only able to go back 2 generations. There had been a fire and much of the 1890 census records were destroyed. The critical census for my search was that one and I could not make the necessary ties to pre-1890 in order to continue the history. It was disappointing. Future generations will be disappointed with us when all this digital information we save won't be available. I'm not sure what the correct terms are but with all the changes in platforms and software already I have records that have been proven to be useless. I used to do a lot of CAD type drawings on a MAC. At a point the software company evaporated leaving me with no ability to access or recover my drawings. It's happened in other ways too. Got floppy discs? Got Zip drives? And think of all the history lost because people stopped writing, first because they could call long distance and then email and texting. Anybody have texts from your grandma tied up with a satin ribbon? I'm a lover of history and it worries me that our so-called paperless society will leave us without a history. I should offer the disclaimer that I have one foot firmly in the 19th century. [/QUOTE]
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