This "family research" thing is interesting and one day everyone will have their family history documented, whether they want it or not, I have no doubt.
At present the way it is usually done, is that people scan old microfiches of newspapers, birth certificates, parish records etc.
But in 50 years time our decendants will be able to go to Yahoo, Google or whoever is in charge and say "here's Great Gradaddy's IP address from 2008, can you let us see all the emails he sent and received please..."
What's the betting that Yahoo, etc will be quite happy to sell this info at a price?
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