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An Archiving Success on the Wayback Machine

Image: Wikipedia, in the Public Domain. Hurrah! I have accomplished a goal! I've been thinking about places where I can share my Leaves on the Tree posts that document my research and family stories. I want my writing to still be available for family, friends, and fellow researchers who might want to learn more about our ancestors once I'm gone. One place I can leave my writing is on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. The Internet Archive is a nonprofit digital library of millions of free texts, movies, software, music, website, and more. The Wayback Machine is the Internet Archive's feature that allows people to visit archived versions of websites. Visitors can type in a URL, select a date range, and surf archived versions of the website. Last month, I decided to archive all  Leaves on the Tree blog posts to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. And this week, I finally finished that task. So, I now have an archive of 300+ blog posts that will be avai...

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