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Family Archivist: Preserving Your Online Legacy

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Storing information online is easy for us — but will it make our descendants’ genealogy research difficult? Thomas MacEntee, founder of High-Definition Genealogy and GeneaBloggers, offers advice on making sure your online legacy lives on. Q. What constitutes an “online legacy”? A. For our grandparents, letters, telegraphs, greeting cards, invitations and other items could be View Website VIP Subscription

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