Family Websites

Aging Japanese pen heartfelt notes to heirs

by Ron Foreman April 17, 2005 Family Websites

Aging Japanese Pen Messages to Posterity Heartfelt ‘Ending Notes’ Give Elderly a Voice in Traditionally Reticent Society By Anthony Faiola, Washington Post Foreign Service, Monday, April 11, 2005; Page A13 TOKYO — Living alone in a tidy little house on the outskirts of Tokyo, 75-year-old Tomohiro Ishizuka spends hours dwelling on things unsaid. There are, [...]

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Third Client

by Ron Foreman April 12, 2005 Family Websites

Last week we signed up our third client. Andy Thomson is a retired history teacher in Toronto. He is researching several subjects including his family lumber business, the Northern Ontario lake where it was situated, currently a family recreational compound, and an uncle who was an RCAF pilot during WWII.

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Why install a blog on a family website?

by Ron Foreman March 23, 2005 Family Websites

A weblog, Web log or simply a blog, contains periodic posts on a common webpage. Often, the word blog is used to describe an online diary or journal. The weblog format of an online diary makes it possible for users without much experience to create, format, and post entries with ease. People write of their [...]

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Second Client

by Ron Foreman March 7, 2005 Family Websites

Today we landed our second client, the Moir family of Lindsay, Minden, and Toronto, Ontario. Their Family Memories’ website will be at www.moir.ca. They are especially interested in Family Memories’ video interviews with the senior members of the family.

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Career blog

by Ron Foreman March 2, 2005 Family Websites

We have had our family website up for several weeks now, www.theforemans.ca. My family have asked that it be private so it is accessible only to family members. We are now 33 descendants of my monther and late father. The latest was born yesterday. My 18 year old niece living in Victoria, BC posted to [...]

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First Client

by Ron Foreman January 28, 2005 Family Websites

We landed our first client yesterday. Not surprisingly it’s my own family. What better place to start? We are assembling the contents and will be publishing next week. We will keep you posted.

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Welcome!

by Ron Foreman January 27, 2005 Family Websites

Hello Everyone, I founded Family Memories to help families use the Internet to preserve family history, maintain strong family ties, and improve communications between family members who live far apart. The Internet is a wonderful tool for decreasing distance. Families are able to almost replicate the way life was generations ago when most family members [...]

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