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<p>As an aside to Claudia's question, it's worth taking the time to
think about documenting one's assets, accounts, and digital life
for one's family in case of death. I have been dealing with my own
wife's passing this last month and have come to appreciate the
complexity of everything involved. It's somewhat easier for me,
because I already managed the family finances and digital
accounts, but still . . . it's a lot.</p>
<p>Last year I came across the following article on my Apple News
stream and passed it along to my sons and daughters with a note
that I was doing this – "why-you-need-a-digital-estate-plan-and-how-to-create-one"
on FastCompany –
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.fastcompany.com/91228523/why-you-need-a-digital-estate-plan-and-how-to-create-one">https://www.fastcompany.com/91228523/why-you-need-a-digital-estate-plan-and-how-to-create-one</a>.
I already had a physical notebook in a file next to my desk in my
home office, and my nearest son and daughter are aware of it. That
provides the passwords to get into everything else. I use a
MacBook with Dashlane managing my passwords, pass keys, etc.</p>
<p>In the process of doing all this, I noticed that Fidelity (where
my wife's and my retirement accounts and investments are) as well
as the Social Security Administration, on .gov, have checklists of
things to do and places to notify in case of a loved one's death.
They overlap, but each covers some things the other doesn't. One
thing I hadn't thought of was to notify the credit bureaus so that
any future attempts at identity theft are blocked. I was able to
upload a death certificate to Experian, and they notify the other
two.</p>
<p>It also greatly simplifies things if you have specified
beneficiaries on your online investment and retirement accounts.
That bypasses probate and can be handled relatively quickly with
very little hassle.</p>
<p>For those of you who know me and/or knew my wife, her obituary
appeared in this weekend's Daily Hampshire Gazette, and the online
version appeared yesterday on legacy.com – Margaret Halbeisen – <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/gazettenet/name/margaret-halbeisen-obituary?id=58628336">https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/gazettenet/name/margaret-halbeisen-obituary?id=58628336</a>.</p>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Chris Hoogendyk (He/Him/His)
胡可思
Treasurer and Executive Director
David Crockett Graham Historical Fund, Inc.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.davidcrockettgraham.org">https://www.davidcrockettgraham.org</a>
Amherst, MA
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:chris.hoogendyk@gmail.com"><chris.hoogendyk@gmail.com></a>
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everything. The only thing we need is access to QuickBooks.
She has the application and files her laptop. We have the
password to her online account but it doesn’t look like she
had online back up. We also have her original disc copy of
QuickBooks. Know anyone who could extract the info from her
laptop drive or unlock it? Glad to pay for the services. Thank
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