Interested to learn about options for recording your family’s stories? Here’s eight ways to capture the memories of those we love beyond just photographs.

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We spend years building digital lives; storing photographs in the cloud, running businesses through email and websites, managing finances online, documenting memories on social media, and collecting subscriptions, files, passwords, and conversations across dozens of platforms. Yet very few people make a plan for what should happen to those accounts when they die.

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