Use an External Drive For Genealogy Research
Use an External Drive For Genealogy Research
Install and run Heritage Collector on an external drive
Attach the drive to a computer and use the program ANYWHERE
Save hard drive space on a notebook or desktop computer
Perfect to use researching and acquiring genealogy records
Leave your heavy notebook or desktop computer home.
Take all your photos and documents with you
Use it at reunions and family gatherings.
Take use it on vacations and your travels
Attach and Use an External Hard Drive
Is Your Hard Drive Filling Up?
Genealogy research can generate a lot of information in the form of records, documents and pictures. The acquisition of these files can quickly fill up a hard drive. Moving these files to a portable external hard drive can free up a lot space. Heritage Collector will make it easier and more efficient to organize and move these files off your hard drive to an external hard drive.
Attaching an external hard drive by inserting a cable.
Note: Heritage Collector is a Windows software program. External hard drives will need to be plugged into a Windows computer or a computer running Parallels, Bootcampe or other Windows OS on a Mac computer.
Documenting Details
Take a little extra time add information you may forget later. Move your research notes an files off your camera or smartphone and into Heritage Collector and on to the external drive. When you arrive home you won’t have to strain and worry about remembering the important names, dates, places and experiences you had during journey.
Preserving Information
It will be quick and easy to copy all the valuable information and files from an external drive to another drive. The assures another level preservation in case a drive fails, is lost or damaged. We are never planning to have one of these unfortunate experiences but it happens to the best of use even with the best planning.
Take It ALL With You Travel and Move About
This will also make it possible for you have access to all your genealogy records as you travel and do research at other locations.You can then run Heritage Collector from the portable external hard drive connected to your computer or fun another Windows PC.