1. Envision Your Digital Legacy

Your digital legacy goes beyond the possessions in your will to include a lifetime of data.

I know almost nothing about my paternal grandfather, who died a few months before I was born. I’ve seen photos of him, examined census records in which his name appears, and heard a few stories, but that’s about it. And of his parents I know even less. There are complicated reasons why so little information about these family members survived, but the fact remains that whatever documents or genealogical data I might dig up, I’ll never be able to know what they were like. What were their interests, hopes, beliefs, and fears? ...

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