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Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter - 4 new articles Send E-Mail Messages After Your Death This sounds morbid, but do you have a method of passing on important information to others in the case of your death? David Eagleman, a neuroscientist at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, has had plenty of time to think about the issue. "I work in the world's largest medical center, and what you see here every day is people showing up in ambulances who didn't expect that just five minutes earlier," he said. "If you suddenly die or go into a coma, there can be a... How to Share Articles in this Newsletter Did you ever read an article here that you wanted to send to a friend? It is easy to do so. When reading the article, click on the SHARE THIS link and icon you see at the bottom of the article. A pop-up window will appear offering many options. Click on SEND/EMAIL, fill in your friend's e-mail address and add any message that you wish, then click on SHARE. A copy of that article will appear in your friend's in-box a few seconds later. Other options of the SHARE THIS service... Are We Losing Our Memory? or The Museum of Obsolete Technology Writing in LOST Magazine, Alexander Stille says that we are running out of time at the National Archives. Information stored in mechanical and electronic format is in danger of being lost forever. The National Archives' Department of Special Media Preservation is a kind of museum of obsolete technology where Archives technicians try to tease information out of modern media that have long vanished from circulation. But the laboratory is more than a curious rag-and-bone shop of technologies... Inmates use LDS Family History Centers to Find Their Pasts and Help Others The Deseret News has an interesting article about several hundred inmates doing genealogical work in Family History Centers run by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints inside the Utah State Prison. There are four family-history centers in the prison, with about 600 inmates doing work on their own genealogies or performing extractions — the indexing of names of long-dead individuals from land records, census forms, birth, death and marriage certificates for a database run by the LDS... More Recent Articles
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