You’ve just encountered a new website, created a username and a unique password, and are ready to spend a few hours researching, looking for a special gift, or just watching a recording or two. We do this mindlessly now, since we have to do it so often. For most websites, it hardly matters, since we may only use them for a little while and then move on. But think about those websites that you use all the time, perhaps where you do your banking or access your stock market updates, places where you’ve stored credit card numbers, and, for most of us, sites where we have stored family trees, photos, documents, and DNA results. Have you thought of what happens to that information when you can no longer maintain it? It's scary to face our own mortality, but let’s look at some options.
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18 May 2026
Those Pesky Passwords are the Key to Your Digital Legacy
14 March 2022
Safety and Security: A Priority for Your Computer
We first posted articles about online safety in our blog in June 2019 and again in July 2020. This situation has continued to be of concern, and now, with the added focus on tax season and the crisis in Ukraine, online scamming is at a peak. So, it seems like a good time to reiterate some important information on keeping your computer and your personal information safe when you are online.