Have a story about handling a loved one’s affairs after they’ve passed on?  Have you experience in creating the records for others?  Want to share your story with our readers?  Just submit your story to stories at beforeyouaregone.com.  If it meets our criteria, we’ll post the story.

Once you have decided that it is necessary to maintain records of your online affairs, it then becomes important to understand how this information will be stored. It is critical to identify what data should be kept with your lawyer/will. Not all users online need legal services to manage their affairs in the event of their death. However, you alone are aware of all your online holdings, properties, etc. and whether or not they may require legal involvement in resolving your estate.

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The following story comes to us from Ron Gines (president of Connexus, Inc., and his personal site) and was originally posted on Slashdot.org:

My mother passed away last month. She had been the family archivist for well over a decade already and had stacks of family history that had not been organized too much. To keep her “occupied” after my father’s death nearly 17 years prior, I suggested that she start putting the genealogy on a computer to help organize it.

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There was a post made today on Slashdot titled “Your Digital Inheritance?” and starts a debate on the issues and need (or lack of, according to some) to document online property.  The author has a journal entry titled “Do You Have a Digital Will & Binary Testament?” with a reminder that it is important that those who outlive us need to know how to best handle our digital property.