How devastated would you be?
This is me last week.
If you want to know what happened, keep reading.
If you just want to know how I can protect you from losing YOUR family history, call me at 214-552-0622 or email me at rebecca@TheGenealogyGuru.com now.
In the photo at left, I'm painstakingly sifting through the rubble of what was left of The Genealogy Guru and Taylormark after the fire that started in the University Park restaurant next door on August 12, 2016, utterly destroyed our business and 5 others.
Even though it was an hour before firefighters ever turned on their hoses . . . even though the fire was on the roof and nowhere near our store for at least 8 hours . . . even though we made repeated entreaties to the owner and management of the building as well as the firefighters on the scene of the importance to us that 5 generations of my personal family history was sitting on my desk and could have been removed in under a minute flat . . . even though the firefighters had left our front door open throughout the entire debacle and eventually, I watched from across the street as the beautiful coffee table books I had written for my clients washed out the front door from the 1.2 million gallons of water they pumped through my building to no avail . . . we were denied the opportunity to go back into our store, either escorted or not, to remove anything.
Why am I telling you this? Don't let this happen to you!
As your personal family historian, please allow me to create a digital file of all your precious family portraits, records, children's drawings, etc. that can be backed up and stored in multiple locations for your protection. Taylormark can backup all of your computers and phones. You wouldn't believe how many people have all their favorite pictures on their phone and nowhere else!
Together, we can take this first step to preserving your digital life.
This is me last week.
If you want to know what happened, keep reading.
If you just want to know how I can protect you from losing YOUR family history, call me at 214-552-0622 or email me at rebecca@TheGenealogyGuru.com now.
In the photo at left, I'm painstakingly sifting through the rubble of what was left of The Genealogy Guru and Taylormark after the fire that started in the University Park restaurant next door on August 12, 2016, utterly destroyed our business and 5 others.
Even though it was an hour before firefighters ever turned on their hoses . . . even though the fire was on the roof and nowhere near our store for at least 8 hours . . . even though we made repeated entreaties to the owner and management of the building as well as the firefighters on the scene of the importance to us that 5 generations of my personal family history was sitting on my desk and could have been removed in under a minute flat . . . even though the firefighters had left our front door open throughout the entire debacle and eventually, I watched from across the street as the beautiful coffee table books I had written for my clients washed out the front door from the 1.2 million gallons of water they pumped through my building to no avail . . . we were denied the opportunity to go back into our store, either escorted or not, to remove anything.
Why am I telling you this? Don't let this happen to you!
As your personal family historian, please allow me to create a digital file of all your precious family portraits, records, children's drawings, etc. that can be backed up and stored in multiple locations for your protection. Taylormark can backup all of your computers and phones. You wouldn't believe how many people have all their favorite pictures on their phone and nowhere else!
Together, we can take this first step to preserving your digital life.
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Not Your Daddy's Genealogist!
Rebecca appears on The Dead Files
Rebecca brings a high-tech presentation to her "expert genealogist" segment.
Just wrapped filming episode #111 of the Travel Channel show, The Dead Files.
Look for it in Spring 2017.
Just wrapped filming episode #111 of the Travel Channel show, The Dead Files.
Look for it in Spring 2017.
The Reveal
What's really going on here? What you don't see are the other 12 members of the crew standing outside the shot.
Mark and I had a great time with these guys and hope our paths cross again.
Mark and I had a great time with these guys and hope our paths cross again.
Rebecca appears on CW33 News, May 2015
Thoughts running thru my head faster than this clip on CW33:
1. Wow, 2 days of being over-heated, exhausted and wind-beaten is not a good look for me.
2. Oh, my gosh, my website is on the news!
3. Um, they spelled "genealogy" wrong.
4. Call CW33 and ask them to correct the article that will run on their website tomorrow.
5. The phone numbers on their website are disconnected.
6. Oh, yeah, I purchased this mid-spelled domain name when I set up my website for just such snafus as this.
7. Wow, could I use a makeover. . . .
In my defense, I had just had an appendectomy two days earlier. If I had any sense, I would have been in bed.
1. Wow, 2 days of being over-heated, exhausted and wind-beaten is not a good look for me.
2. Oh, my gosh, my website is on the news!
3. Um, they spelled "genealogy" wrong.
4. Call CW33 and ask them to correct the article that will run on their website tomorrow.
5. The phone numbers on their website are disconnected.
6. Oh, yeah, I purchased this mid-spelled domain name when I set up my website for just such snafus as this.
7. Wow, could I use a makeover. . . .
In my defense, I had just had an appendectomy two days earlier. If I had any sense, I would have been in bed.
Online family trees can be fun, informational and (sometimes) accurate! Always remember that crowd sourced trees are a great idea but only as reliable as "the crowd" adding records to them.
When you need a professional to sort the fact from the fiction contact us, or register for one of our workshops at TAYLORMARK in University Park.