When I teach classes, I always advise new students to setup
a dedicated email for genealogy related items. I also advise against using the
free email that their internet provider gives them, because if they change
providers, they will have to change all their logins and contact information.
Well, I find myself needing to change my internet provider
and thus all my email contact information. Yikes!
We also hear about how bad it is to write down our logins
and passwords, but as I get older, I can’t remember all my logins, passwords or
even websites that I have used. So lucky for me, I have written all this down.
I have a small address book that I use for recording my information. After I
create some new emails, one for genealogy and one for all my other stuff, I
will slowly go through my address book and start to update the information. Keep in mind that you can find lots of free
applications that will store your passwords on-line. I think I have tried one,
but I can’t remember what that website is off the top of my head, hopefully I
wrote that down.
I am giving myself plenty of time to get this
done, (the first of the year) because I want to complete this while I still have my current internet
provider. Some websites will send a notification email or confirmation email to
your old email as a warning that your account is being changed. This is great
if your account becomes compromised, because you would know. So if you close down that email account too
soon, I don’t know what a website will do when they get your old email message
bouncing back to them. This way I am hoping for the least amount of aggravation
by doing my changes before I close down my email accounts. 
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