Keep Family Near Using the Internet

Tomorrow is my cousins birthday. She lives about 1600 miles from me and so internet has allowed us to continue with our busy days and still keep in touch by email. It's so simple as we are both on our computers a lot. We also co-administrate our family website. We add photos and news and all of our family have access to the site and can add comments and information on their family. When we first started this site I used to put photos of our ancestors and have contests to see who could guess the person in the picture. This got relatives talking and getting on the site at a time when people were just beginning to use the world wide web. It has created an incredible closeness between us. Though we are spread across the U.S. we can see each others children and catch up on news. We know who is where and visiting whom.

Keep in touch. It's worth the few minutes to send off an email if you don't take the time to call each other. We are a very `transient' society and if we don't make this effort, certain people in your family can `fall to the wayside'. What a shame that would be.