It's probably not something we really think about much, but what will our descendants be able to find out about us in 100 years' time? With today's digital technology apparently recording so much of our lives, it would be easy to believe that the answer to that would be "a lot" - but will it really?
Amid the constant deluge of online content and changing platforms, it's quite possible what we put on social media will not still be easily available in a century and, with people not printing off photographs so much these days, perhaps they'll be lost in the digital abyss too.
The way we leave our mark after we're gone was something I was thinking about when the team at Ancestry gave me the opportunity to delve into my family history as it announced that more than 12 million historic UK newspaper pages from over 200 UK newspaper publications have been made available on its Newspapers.com website.
