Readers of my blog know that Ancestry.com has been my “crutch” this past year. To assuage my loneliness due to isolation during the Coronavirus pandemic, I spent eight, ten, twelve, or fourteen hours a day at the computer “climbing the family tree.” To my knowledge, the computer isn’t sick. However, recent changes to the format on Ancestry.com forces me to confess sickness and sadness. An enforced halt to the documentation of family, and obituaries of extended family members, because my brain rebels at the prospect of learning the cumbersome new features.

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