20 Jul
2014
20 Jul
'14
9:14 p.m.
On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 14:58:00 +0100
Adam Spiers <bitfolk(a)adamspiers.org> wrote:
A related thread of discussion is: how many people
have actually
bothered to take care of their digital estate? Given that most people
only started using the internet regularly in the last 15-20 years, I
suspect that awareness of the issue is still worryingly low. A quick
informal poll of this list might be quite revealing: who here has
already taken care of this? Clearly I'm the first to confess that I
haven't ;-)
I would expect readers here to be far better organized in this respect
than the average non-technical person. So if most people here haven't
sorted it yet, everyone else is probably screwed ;-)
It is something I am a bit concerned about given that I will be 82 next
month. No one in my family has any Linux knowledge, or even knows
what data is stored where.
My wife, for example, knows that I have a model making workshop in the
attic but hasn't a clue how to dispose of the 'stuff' up there but
does have a friend who is also a 'model maker' so could get some
advice but when it but when it come to the genealogy database I set up
for her and her cousin which is hosted on Bitfolk along with my own
family database and a couple of related websites there is no one she
can fall back on in the same way.
My family members all use windows based computers but none of them are
in the least computer savvie.
I clearly need to set down on paper some info about how to find out
who/what I am subscribed to and who to contact, but I need to find
someone to take over maintaining the websites and databases if those
genealogy resources are not going to vanish into a computer
blackhole some time in the future :-(
--
John Lewis
Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server