There are so many ways to stay connected with your family (see blog on Staying in Touch).  I want to talk in depth about one that I use, MyFamily.com.  This site allows you to set up your own website for your family.  It is a very simple process, no programming experience is necessary.  You can create a name for your site, add your family members and they will each get their own secure log in and password.

You can put in all their important information, including full names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mails, birthdates, marriage dates, show how ...<< MORE >>

With all the new, and affordable, technology out there, it is easier than ever to preserve your important documents.  Photos don't last forever (about 100 years depending on the paper, ink, etc.) and documents deteriorate rapidly if not properly cared for.  In order to preserve these items for your family's history, I highly recommend scanning them in and saving them digitally as soon as possible.  The other key part to this process is to then save them somewhere safe, other than your computer, to make sure you don't accidentally lose this data.

Let's start with paper documents.  Paper, newspaper, basically printed ...

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It is easier than ever to keep in touch with your family using all the new technology.  This post will explore some of the methods I use.  The first one, is e-mail.  Most people now how to use that, at a minimum.  If you have older family members who are not technology savvy, you can alway send those few people snail mail, but you would be surprised how many of them are online and know how to do at least the basics of e-mail.  Most, if not all, e-mail services allow you to create a group of your contacts.  This ...<< MORE >>

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This blog will provide you with valuable, relevant information regarding family history and preservation.  I have been interested in family history since I was a little girl, and am now the historian for our family.  I have planned two of our family reunions, created a family biography book and a family website.  I also created a scrapbook from one of our reunions and am an avid scrapbooker.  I am fortunate that the previous generations in my family took lots of pictures (which we still have) and kept good records.  I am also lucky that my aunt spent much of her ...<< MORE >>