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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