I am sure you have done something like this:
A number of years ago I collected all the yahrzeits I could find that were important to me – my grandparents, my great grandparents and other relatives. I kept them all in a notebook, and I carefully kept track of that notebook. I kept that notebook for a long time… and then I realized notebooks wear out faster than yahrzeits.
I no longer have that notebook.
But while I still had that notebook, I had a clever idea – I would put all of my yahrzeits on my computer. In a file on my computer. After all, why do I need to keep track of a notebook when I can put them on my computer?!?
That was back in the days when 64K was a whole lot of memory. And my yahrzeits sat on that computer for a while. That was also back in the days when computers would crash and you would lose everything… so you had to keep backups on 5¼” floppy disks.
Is everyone smiling with me, as we remember 5¼” floppy disks? How can you not smile?
But, to go on with the story, my computer crashed and my floppies were not a lot of help… but I did get my list of yahrzeits on my new computer. So that story goes on for a while – from 5¼”, to 3½” to external hard drives and thumb drives and google drives…
And the problem with all these drives – is I still had to check the file all the time to make sure I didn’t miss one of my yahrzeits!
And then I thought about the internet. I could store them on the internet and write a program to send myself email when I needed to know about a yahrzeit. And then it dawned on me, if I need such a service, maybe others also need it…that is – maybe you need it!
And so, there you are. 100% free, always – come to my website and store your yahrzeits. I will (automatically) send you email about a week before your yahrzeit. And since that is the only email I will ever send you, you may want to enter my email address into your contact list so your email will not toss it into spam.